Letter 10043: The building in question has been in its current state of disrepair for longer than is consistent with the dignity...

The Tiburtine villa that recently came into your possession deserves a more talented wordsmith than me.

I should not be a braggart about my devotion to you -- our mutual obligations spring from a genuine sense of duty...

The question of how to live well in a world that is changing faster than one can adapt to it is one that occupies me...

Many people mock you as a grudge-bearer — and rightly so, since you use anger as a weapon of revenge.

I had believed that nothing could be added to a friendship between us that is already full and long-established.