“Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.”

“One will seem to promote virtue better by using encouragement and persuasion of speech than law and necessity. For it is likely that he who is held back from wrongdoing by law will err in secret but that he who is urged to what he should by persuasion will do nothing wrong either in secret or openly. Therefore he who acts rightly from understanding and knowledge proves to be at the same time courageous and right-minded.”

“By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.”

“It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.”

“If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.”

“Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.”

“To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.”