Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.
The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur