What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

He who fears from near at hand often fears less.

To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

There is no evil without its compensation.

It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.