We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.
Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.
The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.
Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.
Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.