Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.

Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.