Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.