Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.
Fine conduct is always spontaneous.
It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.