The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.