Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.
The covetous man is always poor.
Whoever desires is always poor.
Death renders all equal.
Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.