When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
The covetous are always in want.
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.