Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.
Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.
To know all things is not permitted.
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.