They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.

A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.