There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.
Nothing is achieved without toil.
Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.
He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.