For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.
The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.
Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
Those that are little, little things suit.
He is praised by some, blamed by others.