Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at the bottom

There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.