Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.
Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.
Money amassed either serves us or rules us.