If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!
In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla.
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Praise little, dispraise less.