We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.
There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.
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.
Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.
Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.