He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.
Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.