The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.
Humility neither falls far, nor heavily.
Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.