“A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.”
“Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.”
“The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.”
“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.”
“I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.”
“It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.”
“No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.”
“The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.”
“Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.”
“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”
“It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.”
“He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.”
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
“The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.”
“It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.”
“Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.”
“All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.”
“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.”
“The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.”
“Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.”
“Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.”
“Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.”
“Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.”
“Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.”
“It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.”
“Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.”
“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.”
“I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.”
“The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.”