Serving Princes will make Men proud at first, and humble at last.
Resolving to serve well, and at the same time resolving to please, is generally resolving to do what is not to be done.
A Man that will serve well must often rule the Master so hard that it will hurt him.
It is thought an unsociable Quality in a Court to do ones Duty better than other Men.
Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.
Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.
Where Men get by pleasing, and lose by serving, the choice is so easy that no body can miss it.
Princes, their Secrets.
Men are so proud of Princes Secrets, that they will not see the danger of them.
When a Prince trusteth a Man with a dangerous Secret, he would not be sorry to hear the Bell toll for him.