There is more of fear than delight in a secret pleasure.
Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.
It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.
The friendship that can come to an end, never really began.
He can best avoid a snare who knows how to set one.
It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores.
There is no pain in the wound received in the moment of victory.
When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.
Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.
The empire of custom is most mighty.
Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
The greatest of empires, is the empire over one’s self.
We Are Interested In Others When They Are Interested In Us.
Many consult their reputation; but few their conscience.
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are in suffering.
Either be silent, or say something better than silence.
He Conquers Who Conquers Himself.