No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individual, or in governments.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.