Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value.

Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.

As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.

Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.

Of all the difficulties in a state, the temper of a true government most felicifies and perpetuates it; too sudden alterations distemper it. Had Nero tuned his kingdom as he did his harp, his harmony had been more honorable, and his reign more prosperous.

Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.