It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Not to anticipate is already to moan.

Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.

As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.

Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the dead.