Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.
Limbs of a dismembered poet.
What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.
Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.