Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.
All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.
Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
Virtue consists in fleeing vice.