“Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.”

“Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.”

“Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.”

“Nothing will a man rue more than refusal to listen to the wise.”

“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”

“I've begged more than a starved beggar and dearly miss my princess mi amore cadenza
And afraid of the laughter of the cunning Moon, the fierce hunter who starves himself to win the prey,
Under the threat of things that will never pass…
For all terror is nothing more than nightmares that are made manifest for forever in the prison that is a false reality.”

“It is too little to call man a little world, except God, man is a diminutive to nothing. Man consists of more pieces, more parts, than the world; than the world doth, nay, than the world is.”

“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.”

“Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.”

“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.”