The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

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.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

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

We pardon familiar vices.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.