There were few who preferred honor to money.
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.
But few prize honour more than money.
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.