How Much Luckier Than All The Rest

Be Careful How You Do One Man A Pleasure Which Must Needs Occasion Equal Displeasure In Another. For He Who Is Thus Slighted Will Not Forget, But Will Think The Offence To Himself The Greater In That Another Profits By It; While He Who Receives The Pleasure Will Either Not Remember It, Or Will Consider The Favour Done Him Less Than It Really Was.

I Know No Man Who Feels Deeper Disgust Than I Do At The Ambition, Avarice, And Profligacy Of The Priesthood, As Well Because Every One Of These Vices Is Odious In Itself, As Because Each Of Them Separately And All Of Them Together Are Utterly Abhorrent In Men Making Profession Of A Life Dedicated To God.

Affairs That Depend On Many Rarely Succeed.

Conspiracies, Since They Cannot Be Engaged In Without The Fellowship Of Others, Are For That Reason Most Perilous; For As Most Men Are Either Fools Or Knaves, We Run Excessive Risk In Making Such Folk Our Companions.

Even Though Many People Prove To Be Ungrateful, Do Not Let That Stop You From Benefiting Others-for Not Only Is Beneficence In Itself A Noble And Almost Divine Quality, It May Also Happen That While You Practice It, You Will Encounter Someone So Grateful That He Will Make Up For All The Others' Ingratitude.