My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.