Fragments (10-14)

The bond of the body is loosened by nature through death, and by vice through money:[*] but the bond of the soul is loosened by learning, and by experience and by discipline.

If you wish to live without perturbation and with pleasure, try to have all who dwell with you good. And you will have them good, if you instruct the willing, and dismiss those who are unwilling (to be taught): for there will fly away together with those who have fled away both wickedness and slavery; and there will be left with those who remain with you goodness and liberty.

It is a shame for those who sweeten drink with the gifts of the bees, by badness to embitter reason which is the gift of the gods.

No man who loves money, and loves pleasure, and loves fame, also loves mankind, but only he who loves virtue.

As you would not choose to sail in a large and decorated and gold-laden ship (or ship ornamented with gold), and to be drowned; so do not choose to dwell in a large and costly house and to be disturbed (by cares).