He can afford to be a fool.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

Nothing is swifter than rumor.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.