We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

Injustice never rules forever.

We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.

The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.

Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged