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.

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

See the effect of commercial intercourse.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it