An accomplished man to his fingertips.

There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.

If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.