To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.
The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.