What's well begun is half done.
God made not pleasures for the rich alone.
Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.
Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.
Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.