» The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
» Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
» Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
» If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
» By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
» Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.