We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
Lack of desire is the greatest riches.
He worships God who knows him.
Successful villany is called virtue.