no hay goce alguno de las cosas si no se comparten con otros. - Erasmus

cada cual siente tanta mayor satisfacción cuanto más pesada es la cadena que se cuelga al cuello, cual si, más bien que la riqueza, tratara de acreditar la robustez de las espaldas.

For these kind of men that are so given up to the study of wisdom are generally most unfortunate, but chiefly in their children; Nature, it seems, so providently ordering it, lest this mischief of wisdom should spread further among mankind.

Yet in the midst of all their prosperity, princes in this respect seem to me most unfortunate, because, having no one to tell them truth, they are forced to receive flatterers for friends.