As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.