What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

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

The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.