“no one ever gossips about the virtues of others”

“No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.”

“To endure uncertainity is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.”

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

“No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.”

“The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.”

“One must care about a world one will not see.”