Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

There is even the dignity of vice.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.