He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.