Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.

A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.