There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.
We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.
A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.
Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about.