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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetus, c 200 AD -Seneca.

Mercy often inflicts death.

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before it arrives!

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

They laboriously do nothing.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.