Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
Expediency often silences justice.
There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.
No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.
... frugality makes a poor man rich.
We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.