The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
A great fortune is a great slavery.