A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

To teach is to delight.

If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Remember to be calm in adversity.

Joking apart, now let us be serious.