"What a glorious luxury it is to taste life to the full for even a single year. If you constantly regret life's passing, even a thousand long years will seem but the dream of a night." 
"In all things, the beginning and end are the most engaging. Does the love of a man and woman suggest only their embraces? No, the sorrow of lovers parted before they met, laments over promises betrayed, long lonely nights spent sleepless until dawn, pining thoughts for one in some far place, a woman left sighing over past love in her tumbledown abode– it is these, surely, that embody the romance of love"

overall an interesting collection of musings. what was lovely to see were that these musings are so fundamentally human and relatable– they talk about many of the things we still talk about today. some of it was a slog perhaps but overall enjoyable.