If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
The word is the shadow of the deed.
To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
Life unexamined, is not worth living.