We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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.