Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue..

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us..

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours..

It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity..

He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity..

Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on..

The sum of all that makes a just man happy Consists in the well choosing of his wife: And there, well to discharge it, does require Equality of years….

The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe..

Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me..

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness..

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation..

How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses..

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life..

One grain of incense with devotion offer'd 'S beyond all perfumes of Sabaean spices..

They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts..

Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at..

Great men, Till they have gained their ends, are giants in Their promises, but, those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance. And it is a max….

Black detraction will find faults where they are not..

Shall this nectar Run useless, then, to waste? or ... these lips, That open like the morn, breathing perfumes, On such as dare approach them, be unto….

Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation..

Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin..