It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
They who prosper take on airs of vanity.
We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.