Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.