Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.