You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.

Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.

No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.