Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.
He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.
Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.
Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.