He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?

Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.