The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.

There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.