No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have.

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.