Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.

Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.