“A great fortune is a great slavery.”
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.