Abstinence is easier than temperance.

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

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.

Everything may happen.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

Expediency often silences justice.