That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.
Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
Great contests generally excite great animosities.
In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
Haste is blind and improvident.
Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
Prosperity engenders sloth.
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . . . the cook, who had up to that time been employed as a slave of low price, become dear: what had been nothing but a metier was elevated to an art.
Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
Better late than never.
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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