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Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

It is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear.

Be more guided by hope than fear.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance
to make them.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.