Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.