Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching

Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones - the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side

The more merit, the less affection

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment