The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.