Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance

Nothing is rarer than real goodness.

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.