Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their senses and become mad.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

It is better to be envied than pitied.