Fine conduct is always spontaneous.

The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.