“hectic”

“as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure”

“It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.”

“Un hombre prudente debe discurrir siempre por las vías trazadas por los grandes hombres e imitar a aquellos que han sobresalido extraordinariamente por encima de los demás, con el fin de que, aunque no se alcance su virtud, algo nos quede, sin embargo, de su aroma.”

“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”

“Quod Principi plaevit habet legis vigorem”

“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”