There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.
Who has more leisure than a worm?
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.
Crime requires further crime to conceal it.