Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

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

There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.