Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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.
Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.
Let Apella the Jew believe it.
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
Envy is not to be conquered but by death.