“In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.”

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

But few prize honour more than money.

The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.

But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.

To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.

To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.

Enough words, little wisdom.

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

No grief reaches the dead.

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

Don’t leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.

I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you’ll take me in your arms again.

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat.

Holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat.

The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.

While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms.