The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.
In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.
It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.