There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Leave the rest to the gods.

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.