The Return We Reap From Generous Actions

Ambassadors Are The Eye And Ear Of States.

...be More Guided By Hope Than Fear.

Be Careful How You Do One Man A Pleasure Which Must Needs Occasion Equal Displeasure In Another. For He Who Is Thus Slighted Will Not Forget, But Will Think The Offence To Himself The Greater In That Another Profits By It; While He Who Receives The Pleasure Will Either Not Remember It, Or Will Consider The Favour Done Him Less Than It Really Was.

How Much Luckier Than All The Rest Of Mankind Are The Astrologers Who, If They Tell One Truth Among A Hundred Lies, Obtain So Much Credit That Even Their Lies Are Believed.

Waste No Time With Revolutions That Do Not Remove The Causes Of Your Complaints But Simply Change The Faces Of Those In Charge.