He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.