Magnanimity Is Sufficiently Defined By Its Name,

It Is Not Always From Valor Or From Chastity That Men Are Brave, And Women Chaste.

A Certain Harmony Should Be Kept Between Actions And Ideas If We Want To Fully Develop The Effects They Can Produce.

Kings Do With Men As With Pieces Of Money; They Give Them What Value They Please, And We Are Obliged To Receive Them At Their Current And Not At Their Real Value.

Humility Is Often Only Feigned Submission Which People Use To Render Others Submissive. It Is A Subterfuge Of Pride Which Lowers Itself In Order To Rise.

Fortune Makes Our Virtues And Vices Visible, Just As Light Does The Objects Of Sight.