Ever since I was born I have never been involved in corruption and I will never be corrupt.

He who practices moderation and frugality will never be threatened with poverty.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

If we [lawyers] are corruption-free, the whole country will be corruption-free.

Poverty is no sinne.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

A people who never misused the powers of government would never misuse independence, and a people which always governed itself well would not need to be governed.

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

;There are no tyrants where there are no slaves.

By not having any money to waste, you never waste money.

Wealth is no mark of God's favour. Poverty is no mark of God's displeasure.

Nobody...ought to be punished for religious opinions.

This could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened.

No one has condemned wisdom to poverty. The philosopher shall own ample wealth, but it will have been wrested from no man, nor will it be stained with another’s blood.