How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.