There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.
Remember to be calm in adversity.
Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.
Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]