Wisdom comes to no one by chance.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
It is opportunity that makes the thief.
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.