Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.

Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.

Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.