Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

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

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.