When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
A pauper in the midst of wealth.
You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.
Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.