Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.