A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer.