The Clemency Of Princes Is Often But

It Is Not Enough To Have Great Qualities; We Should Also Have The Management Of Them.

Absence Cools Moderate Passions, And Inflames Violent Ones; Just As The Wind Blows Out Candles, But Kindles Fires.

Chance Corrects Us Of Many Faults That Reason Would Not Know How To Correct.

There Are Certain People Fated To Be Fools; They Not Only Commit Follies By Choice, But Are Even Constrained To Do So By Fortune.

We Should Desire Very Few Things Passionately If We Did But Perfectly Know The Nature Of The Things We Desire.