Give help rather than advice.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.