A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.