The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.