The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.
Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.