No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.