How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.