We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.