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.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.

Hope and fear are inseparable.

Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.

The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.