If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.

That which costs little is less valued.

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

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

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.