Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.
Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.
Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.
The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.