To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.
The road to Hades is easy to travel.
The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.
Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.
Wealth is the sinews of affairs.
Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.