No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Successful villany is called virtue.

Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

The voice is nothing but beaten air.

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.