I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.
Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.