Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.
. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.