It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.

If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.