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

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.

The expression of truth is simplicity.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

If you wish to be loved, love.

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.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.