However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.
It needs as much generosity to take as to give.
Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.
What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.
If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!
Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.