Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.