He who has great power should use it lightly.

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

The most happy ought to wish for death.

What you think is the summit is only a step up

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.