Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.