No Pleasure Has Any Savor For Me

How Many Valiant Men We Have Seen To Survive Their Own Reputation!

No Man Is Exempt From Saying Silly Things; The Mischief Is To Say Them Deliberately.

Don't Discuss Yourself, For You Are Bound To Lose; If You Belittle Yourself, You Are Believed; If You Praise Yourself, You Are Disbelieved.

Fortune Does Us Neither Good Nor Hurt; She Only Presents Us The Matter, And The Seed, Which Our Soul, More Powerfully Than She, Turns And Applies As She Best Pleases; Being The Sole Cause And Sovereign Mistress Of Her Own Happy Or Unhappy Condition.

I Have Often Seen People Uncivil By Too Much Civility, And Tiresome In Their Courtesy.