Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.
No one is content with his own lot.
Leave the rest to the gods.
He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.