Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

Golden roofs break men's rest.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.