Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.
He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
Let us love temperately, things violent last not.
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
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