Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.
Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.
The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.
If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.
Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.