We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.

Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.