Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
A man must become wise at his own expense.
Who does not see that I have taken a road along which I shall go, without stopping and without effort, as long as there is ink and paper in the world? I cannot keep a record of my life by my actions; fortune places them too low. I keep it by my thoughts.
A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.