How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.
No one is happy all his life long.
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.