Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Comparisons are odious.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.