Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
There is measure in all things.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.