To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.
Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.
The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.