That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Who were these clowns?
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.