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

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.