However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at last.

The highest skill is the true judgment of values.

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

Nothing is given so willingly as advice.

What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices; in it is nothing but a system of traffic, in which self-love always proposes to itself some advantage.

However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at last.

The most trying fools are the bright ones.