The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
Whom they have injured they also hate.
No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.