Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

He who fears from near at hand often fears less.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.