Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.