We are often moved with passion and think it to be zeal.
Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
Of two evils we must always choose the least.
Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish.
It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.