When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

An accomplished man to his fingertips.

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

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]

To grow a philosopher's beard.