Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.
The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.
We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
One promises much, to avoid giving little.