Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

There is no harbor of peace From the changing waves of joy and despair.

Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.

If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

Fate finds for every man His share of misery.

Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich.

That glittering hope is immemorial And beckons many men To their undoing.