Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.