Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
Poverty is the mother of crime.
It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.