He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

There is no power greater than true affection.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.

He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.

No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.