I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

The lucky person passes for a genius.

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.