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.
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.
Charity is an eternal debt and without limit.