To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

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

There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.