If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

If you want to be loved, love.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.

Courage leads starward, fear toward death.