Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.