The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.
When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.
Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.
Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.
Ploutos , no wonder mortals worship you: You are so tolerant of their sins !
Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock . Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue.