He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

Your happiness depends on you alone.

We work to earn our leisure.

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

The gods too are fond of a joke.

The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.