Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.

If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.