Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt
Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.
For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
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