The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.
The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.
Humility neither falls far, nor heavily.
A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.
It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.