It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.

The loftiness of understanding embraces all. It requires as much spirit to suffer the failings of others as it does to appreciate their good qualities.

It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.

Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their ancestors that gives them noble blood.

The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.

It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices, we only encourage him to increase his deceptions.

When people reproach us, they only increase their own failings even as they are disclaiming them.