If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.