Translation: Ambassadors are the eyes and ears of States. - Francesco Sansovino

Translation: Men have no greater enemy than excessive prosperity, for it destroys their mastery over themselves and makes them licentious and vicious, with a hankering after novelties destructive of their own well-being.

Quella guerra è giusta ch’ è necessaria : e quelle armi sono pie, nelle quali non resta altra speranza che nelle dette armi.

Translation: That war is just which is necessary, and those arms are righteous wherein reposes no other hope save in the arms themselves.