Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.