Be not served with kinsmen, or friends, or men entreated to stay; for they expect much, and do little; nor with such as are amorous, for their heads are intoxicated; and keep rather too few, than one too many.
—William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Topics: Servants
Never trust anybody not of sound religion, for he that is false to God can never be true to man.
—William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Topics: Religion
Trust not any man with thy life, credit, or estate. For it is mere folly for a man to enthrall himself to his friend, as though, occasion being offered, he might not become an enemy.
—William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Topics: Trust
Win hearts, and you have all men’s hands and purses.
—William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Topics: Kindness
A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.
—William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Topics: Manners
Beware of suretyship for thy best friend. He that payeth another man’s debt seeketh his own decay. But if thou canst not otherwise choose, rather lend thy money thyself upon good bonds, although thou borrow it; so shalt thou secure thyself, and pleasure thy friend.
—William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Edmund Burke British Philosopher, Statesman
- Benjamin Franklin American Polymath
- Henry L. Stimson American Statesman
- Dante Alighieri Italian Poet, Philosopher
- Adolf Hitler German Fascist Dictator
- Mohandas K. Gandhi Indian Hindu Political leader
- Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading English Humanitarian
- Nelson Mandela South African Political leader
- J. William Fulbright American Politician
- Cato the Elder (Marcus Porcius Cato) Roman Statesman
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