A fool cannot hold his tongue.

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

Philosophy is the art of living.

Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.