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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.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