Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.