A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.

To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

Expediency often silences justice.

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.