The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
Abstinence is easier than temperance.
After death there is nothing.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.