Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.

Great contests generally excite great animosities.

Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.

Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.

By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.