Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
All roads lead to Rome but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
The more wary you are of danger the more likely you are to meet it.
Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul impossibilities vanish.