A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
Charity is an eternal debt and without limit.
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.
There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.