It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.

The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.