Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.

I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.

Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.

None can be so true to your secret as yourself.

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.

Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.