Not To Get What You Have Set

Happiness Is At Once The Best, The Noblest, And The Pleasantest Of Things.

People Generally Despise Where They Flatter.

Patience Is So Like Fortitude That She Seems Either Her Sister Or Her Daughter.

Masculine Republics Give Way To Feminine Democracies, And Feminine Democracies Give Way To Tyranny.

Again, It Is Possible To Fail In Many Ways (for Evil Belongs To The Class Of The Unlimited And Good To That Of The Limited), While To Succeed Is Possible Only In One Way (for Which Reason Also One Is Easy And The Other Difficult—to Miss The Mark Easy, To Hit It Difficult); For These Reasons Also, Then, Excess And Defect Are Characteristic Of Vice, And The Mean Of Virtue; For Men Are Good In But One Way, But Bad In Many.