If We Have Not Peace Within Ourselves,

Good And Bad Fortune Are Found Severally To Visit Those Who Have The Most Of The One Or The Other.

Quarrels Would Not Last Long If The Fault Was Only On One Side.

The Applause We Give Those Who Are New To Society Often Proceeds From A Secret Envying Of Those Already Established.

A Wise Man Should Order His Interests, And Set Them All In Their Proper Places. This Order Is Often Troubled By Greed, Which Putsus Upon Pursuing So Many Things At Once That, In Eagerness For Matters Of Less Consideration, We Grasp At Trifles, And Let Go Things Of Greater Value.

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