Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.

God helps him who strives hard.

Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.

Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.