Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.

Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.