“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be”

“Ambition is the immoderate desire for power”

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants ”

“In every living thing there is the desire for love ”

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst ”

“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little”