The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.
Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.
Silence is an answer to a wise man.
He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.
When the candles are out all women are fair.