This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.

Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.