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.

I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]

Those who covet much suffer from the want.