Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
The whole discord of this world consists in discords.
I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.