Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.