In everything you will find annoyances, but you ought to consider whether the advantages do not predominate.
Menander.
388.
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
Herodotus.
389.
Sleeping, we image what awake we wish;
Dogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.*
Cf. Arab proverb: “The dream of the cat is always about mice.”
Theocritus.