Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.
Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.
Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.