Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.

Hope is a great falsifier of truth.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Man's life is a warfare against the malice of men.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy: in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.