Posterity is always just.

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

Finance is a slave's word.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.