Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.