Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.

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

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.