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

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

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

Envy creates the beginning of strife.

Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.

The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.

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.