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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.