wine, and a great bed with linen, a little 
coarse, but clean; what better is there in the 
world?” 
But returning alone to his house at that 
hour when the advice of wisdom is no longer 
suffocated by the roar of the exterior world, he 
said to himself: “I have had to-day in dream 
three dwelling-places, which have given me 
one as much pleasure as the other; why inflict 
the trouble of travelling upon my body since 
my soul does it so easily, and why carry out 
plans, since planning is itself a sufficient pleas-
ure?”