Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Epicurus
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Epicurus
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.