Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.