The Desire To Be Thought Clever Often

Whilst Weakness And Timidity Keep Us To Our Duty, Virtue Has Often All The Honor.

It Is Much Easier To Seem Fitted For Posts We Do Not Fill Than For Those We Do.

There Are No Events So Disastrous That Adroit Men Do Not Draw Some Advantage From Them, Nor Any So Fortunate That The Imprudent Cannot Turn To Their Own Prejudice.

Philosophy Triumphs Easily Over Past Evils And Future Evils, But Present Evils Triumph Over It.

The Moderation Of People In Prosperity Is The Effect Of A Smooth And Composed Temper, Owing To The Calm Of Their Good Fortune.