It pays to be content with your lot.
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.
Better to starve free than be a fat slave
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.