Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.
Enemies gifts are no gifts and do no good.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.
Laziness is the mother of all evils.