This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
Sit mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)
Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.
Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.