Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.
A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.
Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about.