To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
As many servants so many enemies.
Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.