The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.
Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.
Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.
When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.
It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.