The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
Word is a shadow of a deed.
Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.