Joking apart, now let us be serious.
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?