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.

Let Apella the Jew believe it.

Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.