Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

In every good man a God doth dwell.