Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate.

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.