The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas
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.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
Continual dropping wears away a stone.