We heed no instincts but our own.

What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Diversity, that is my motto.

Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

There is nothing useless to men of sense.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, Let him beat me too when I am absent.

He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

The worst time is always the present.

A hare is not caught with a drum.

Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.

We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.

In short, luck's always to blame.