To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.