He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.
That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.