Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
Let Apella the Jew believe it.
Books have their destinies.
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.