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.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

God is near you, is with you, is inside you.