I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
A stout heart breaks bad luck.
Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.