Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge.

The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness.

There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few.