How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.