It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.
Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.