O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.