Love Only What Befalls You And Is

Do You See What Little Is Required Of A Man To Live A Well-tempered And God-fearing Life? Obey These Precepts, And The Gods Will Ask Nothing More.

The Gods Sustain And Guide All Their Works.

Always Bear This In Mind, That Very Little Indeed Is Necessary For Living A Happy Life.

What Use Do I Put My Soul To? It Is A Serviceable Question This, And Should Frequently Be Put To Oneself. How Does My Ruling Part Stand Affected? And Whose Soul Have I Now? That Of A Child, Or A Young Man, Or A Feeble Woman, Or Of A Tyrant, Of Cattle Or Wild Beasts.

He Does Not Write At All Whose Poems No Man Reads