Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.
No just person ever became quickly rich.
Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
He who labors diligently need never despair.
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.