Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.
Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.