The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride
Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.
Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.