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

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.