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

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

As long as you live, learn how to live.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.