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

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

No man is a hero to his own valet.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.