Avarice often fails by the very means it employs to…

It is wiser to endure an injury from one person…

To retort the artifice employed against us is an allowable…

It is hardly possible to deprive malevolence of every occasion…

A false estimate of our own abilities often exposes us…

It’s always dangerous to spend time with people of bad…

Prepossession and partiality can lead to absurd errors. A wealthy…

The silly ambition to vie with superiors in outward appearance…

Some expect gratitude for a favor while secretly undermining its…

We should immediately avoid any person we find to be…

The courage of meeting death in an honorable cause is…

Those who keep bad company often suffer for the misbehavior…