Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.
My mind's my kingdom.
Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it.
Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.
Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will hug thee to death; the other will crush thee to destruction: to escape the first, be not ambitious; to avoid the second, be not seditious.