Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.
O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.
It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.
Enough is abundance to the wise.