Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of far travel we have come to our own home and rest on the couch we longed for? This it is which alone is worth all these toils.
We see not our own backs.
Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale