The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.