I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.