Wisdom comes to no one by chance.
Those alone are wise who know how to love.
To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.