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

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

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

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

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.

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

Hope is a great falsifier of truth.

Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.