It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.
Only the fools are certain and assured.
A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.
Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me.
Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.