Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

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.

The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

Unjust rule does not last forever.