The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.