I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequ...
That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.
[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
