Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.
In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.