Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.
Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.
The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.
Wealth is the sinews of success.
Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.