All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.
It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe