Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

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

There exists no more difficult art than living.

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.