There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.