Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got. >>
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see t >>
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise hims >>
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character. >>
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. >>
Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who find >>
That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.