Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.