The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.
If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?