Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.

Nothing is ours except time.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

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.

There exists no more difficult art than living.