If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.