It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

We give advice, we do not inspire conduct.

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

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

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

Nothing is so contagious as example.