The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.
A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'
I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.
The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.