You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.

What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.