The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

To please the many is to displease the wise.

There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.