As many servants so many enemies.

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.