Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.

A man of refined taste and judgment.

Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.