We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.
We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned.
Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all.
A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.