Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.

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.

In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.