The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.
No possession is gratifying without a companion.
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.