What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
Nature is harmony in discord.
Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.