There is no evil without its compensation.
Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
The best cure for anger is delay.
Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.