We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.
He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.
Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.