The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach; what is allotted you will find wherever you may be.

Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them.

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.

Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.

When the ruler is obedient to God, God is his protector and friend.