It Requires No Small Degree Of Ability

The Reason Why So Few People Are Agreeable In Conversation Is That Each Is Thinking More About What He Intends To Say Than Others Are Saying.

To Praise Princes For Virtues They Do Not Possess Is To Insult Them Without Fear Of Consequences.

Jealousy Lives Upon Doubts. It Becomes Madness Or Ceases Entirely As Soon As We Pass From Doubt To Certainty.

No Accidents Are So Unlucky [bad] But That The Wise May Draw Some Advantage [good] From Them.

Fortune Never Appears So Blind As To Those To Whom She Does No Good.