If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.
Fine conduct is always spontaneous.
You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.