The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
Be smart, drink your wine.
When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.