Indolence, Languid As It Is, Often Masters

Silence Is The Safest Course For Any Man To Adopt Who Distrust Himself.

Only The Great Can Afford To Have Great Defects.

That Which Makes The Vanity Of Others Unbearable To Us Is That Which Wounds Our Own.

Hope, Deceiving As It Is, Serves At Least To Lead Us To The End Of Our Lives By An Agreeable Route.

It Is Given To Few Persons To Keep This Secret Well. Those Who Lay Down Rules Too Often Break Them, And The Safest We Are Able To Give Is To Listen Much, To Speak Little, And To Say Nothing That That Will Ever Give Ground Or Regret.