A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
The higher your station, the less your liberty.