To Praise Princes For Virtues They Do

If Vanity Does Not Entirely Overthrow The Virtues, At Least It Makes Them All Totter.

Fortunate Persons Hardly Ever Amend Their Ways: They Always Imagine That They Are In The Right When Fortune Upholds Their Bad Conduct.

Cunning And Treachery Are The Offspring Of Incapacity.

There Are Various Sorts Of Curiosity; One Is From Interest, Which Makes Us Desire To Know That Which May Be Useful To Us; And The Other, From Pride Which Comes From The Wish To Know What Others Are Ignorant Of.

We Are Always Bored By The Very People By Whom It Is Vital Not To Be Bored.