Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.
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.