The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

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