A Wise Man Thinks It

Fortunate Persons Hardly Ever Amend Their Ways: They Always Imagine That They Are In The Right When Fortune Upholds Their Bad Conduct.

A True Friend Is The Most Precious Of All Possessions And The One We Take The Least Thought About Acquiring.

He Who Refuses Praise The First Time That It Is Offered Does So Because He Would Hear It A Second Time.

Death And The Sun Are Not To Be Looked At Steadily.

Avarice Misapprehends Itself Almost Always. There Is No Passion Which More Often Will Miss Its Aim, Nor Upon Which The Present Has So Much Influence To The Prejudice Of The Future.