100.  Let others sail for merchandise, I used to say, and cross the wide oceans, and constantly contend with winds and waves, to gain great wealth, if so it should chance, and run great risks in their eagerness for sailing and merchandise; but, for my part, I greatly prefer to stay ashore and plough a short but pleasant furrow, saluting at a respectful distance the sea and its gains, to live as best I can upon a poor and scanty store of barley-bread, and drag my life along in safety and calm, rather than expose myself to so long and great a risk for the sake of great gains.

Ρʹ. Ἄλλος μὲν οὖν πλείτω κατ' ἐμπορίαν, ἔλεγον, καὶ τὰ μακρὰ διαπεραιούσθω πελάγη, καὶ συμφερέσθω τοῖς ἀνέμοις ἀεὶ καὶ τοῖς κύμασι μεγάλα καὶ κερδήσων, ἂν οὕτω τύχῃ, καὶ κινδυνεύσων, ὅστις πλευστικώτατος ἢ ἐμπορικώτατος: ἐμοὶ δ' οὖν αἱρετώτερον ἐπὶ γῆς ἀνέχοντι, βραχεῖαν αὔλακα τέμνοντι καὶ γλυκεῖαν, πόῤῥωθεν ἀσπαζομένῳ κέρδη καὶ θάλασσαν, ζῇν οὕτως ὅπως ἂν δύνωμαι σὺν ὀλίγῃ καὶ μικρᾷ τῇ μάζῃ, καὶ βίον ἕλκειν ἀσφαλῆ καὶ ἀκύμαντον, ἢ μακρὸν ἀναῤῥιπτεῖν καὶ μέγαν ἐπὶ μεγάλοις κέρδεσι κίνδυνον.