Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.

Those who covet much suffer from the want.