Fortune Turns All Things To The Advantage

Few Are Sufficiently Wise To Prefer Censure Which Is Useful To Praise Which Is Treacherous.

The Contempt Of Riches In Philosophers Was Only A Hidden Desire To Avenge Their Merit Upon The Injustice Of Fortune, By Despising The Very Goods Of Which Fortune Had Deprived Them; It Was A Secret To Guard Themselves Against The Degradation Of Poverty, It Was A Back Way By Which To Arrive At That Distinction Which They Could Not Gain By Riches.

Of All Our Faults, The One That We Excuse Most Easily Is Idleness.

Before We Passionately Desire A Thing, We Should Examine The Happiness Of Its Possessor.

Weakness Is More Opposed To Virtue Than Is Vice.