Translation: Writers who depreciate are much more attentively read than those who flatter. - Giovanni Francesco Lottini

Translation: He who has powerful enemies should, for his own protection and their undoing, firmly believe two things, apparently contradictory; first that they are both bold and prudent, and secondly that with all their prudence they are capable of making mistakes.

Translation: There is no difference between the noble and the shopkeeper, while they are asleep.

Quanto più i luoghi son forti, tanto dee il principe esser più accurato in guardargli, perciochè non si sta da parte alcuna iu maggior pericolo, che da quella, d’onde gli par esser sicuro.