For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.