All cruelty springs from weakness.
Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.