Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. Seneca on travel
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes. Seneca on want
All cruelty springs from weakness. Seneca on weakness
In nature all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything. Shaftesbury III on prudence
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. William Shakespeare on absence
'Tis a common proof, that lowliness is Edward Young ambition's ladder, where to the climber upwards turns his face; but when he once attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks into the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend. William Shakespeare on ambition
Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought. William Shakespeare on ambition