No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another’s great tribulation; not because any man’s troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you...

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

A learned man has always riches in himself.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

It is well for one to know more than he says.

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

The evil that we know is best.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.