“The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much”

“Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained”

“Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.”

“Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?”

“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable”

“When a man's busy, why leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure: faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy”