We Rich Men Count Our Felicity And

As Those That Pull Down Private Houses Adjoining To The Temples Of The Gods, Prop Up Such Parts As Are Contiguous To Them; So, In Undermining Bashfulness, Due Regard Is To Be Had To Adjacent Modesty, Good-nature And Humanity.

Rather I Fear On The Contrary That While We Banish Painful Thoughts We May Banish Memory As Well.

Poverty Is Dishonorable, Not In Itself, But When It Is A Proof Of Laziness, Intemperance, Luxury, And Carelessness; Whereas In A Person That Is Temperate, Industrious, Just And Valiant, And Who Uses All His Virtues For The Public Good, It Shows A Great And Lofty Mind.

Friendship Is The Most Pleasant Of All Things, And Nothing More Glads The Heart Of Man.

It Was Not Important How Many Enemies There Are, But Where The Enemy Is