Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.
Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.
It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.
The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.