Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.