He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.
Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.
A healer of others, himself diseased.
Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.
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.