Prosperity makes few friends.
A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.
Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature.
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.