Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

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.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

An unpopular rule is never long maintained.

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.