Life is long if you know how to use it.

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

If virtue precede us every step will be safe.