Wealth and poverty
A great fortune is a great slavery.
To greed, all nature is insufficient
It is not man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Avarice takes from others what it denies itself.
The greedy lack in what they have as well as what they do not; in luxury many things may be lacking, but greed lacks all.
Great is he who uses clay vases as if they were of silver, but none inferior are those who use silver vases as if they were of clay. A weak soul does not know how to bear wealth.
No one ever grew rich with money.
Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.
Great is he who knows how to be poor with great riches.
Poor is not he who has little, but he who wishes for more.
Hunger is not demanding; just contain it; how doesn’t matter.
I am carrying all of my wealth.
To our avarice, a lot is a little; to our necessity, a little is a lot.
If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of man, you will never be rich.
There is nothing attractive in possessing goods if you do not share them.
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men
Desires, pleasure, pain, joy, happiness
All men want to live happily, but to discover what makes life happier, you just have to keep trying, for it is not easy to reach happiness, for the more we search for it the more it moves away from us. We may fool ourselves along the road and take a wrong turn; the more of a hurry we are in, the longer the distance.
But if you seek, in every place in every way, only pleasure, know that you are so far from wisdom as you are from true happiness.
All the happiness is uncertain and unstable.
Light pains are repressed; great pains are mute.
Happiness is to not lack having it.
Men are as unhappy as they believe themselves to be.
We avoid envy when we keep our joys for ourselves.
It is justly through pleasure that the causes of pain are born.
All art is an imitation of nature.
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. it is natural to feel pleasure at the end of one’s very suffering.
Great am I, and I was born for greater things than be a slave to my flesh.
Men who suffer before they need to, suffer more than necessary.
Life’s desires form a chain whose links are of hope.
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