"To make a good man, you must first make a good citizen."

"If you want to be a man of leisure, don't be a slave to your desires."

"If you have a mind to be a philosopher, prepare yourself from the first to be laughed at, to be sneered at by the multitude."

"It is not poverty that makes a man miserable, but covetousness."

"If you wish for nothing, you will be free."