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

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

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.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.