The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

In valor there is hope.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Successful women don't sleep until noon.

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

Change is a process not an event.

How can a young man like to wear a beard?

That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca’s experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.

Show business can be an addiction. ... An audience would laugh at me one night, and I would chase that high for another three months.

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity

Violence does even justice unjustly.

You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.

We are all Michaelangelos.