The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.

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

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

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