Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.

To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.