Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.