One crime has to be concealed by another.

Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

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

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

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.