In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.
I am going to seek a great perhaps.
If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries," I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.