In all things let reason be your guide.
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.
He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.
Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.