It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.