Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.
Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.
Stubbornness is not firmness.
No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
The brave person thinks of himself last of all.