Labor diligently to increase your property.

Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.

No one is content with his own lot.

Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.

Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.