If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.