The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.
The soul that has no established aim loses itself
Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.