Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.

Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.

He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.