Id. Lib. 10. Ep. 47 — Ad Seipsum

These, pleasant Martial, are the things
That to Man's life contentment brings;
Wealth by succession got, not toil,
A glowing Hearth; a fruitfull Soil;
No Strife; few Suits; a Mind not drown'd
A cares; clean Strength; a Body sound;
Prudent Simplicity; equal Friends;
[…]o Diet, that to lavish tends:
A Night not steept in Drink, yet freed
From Care; a chast, and peacefull Bed;
Untroubled Sleeps, that render Night
Shorter, and sweeter till the light;
Lo be best pleas'd with thine own state,
Neither to wish, nor fear thy Fate.