As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.

We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

There is a false love that will make you something you are not.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.