The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

Without confidence, there is no friendship.

Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.