There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.
Lazy people always intend to start doing something.
The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.
It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.