Busy idleness urges us on.
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.
If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.
Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
There is moderation in everything.
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.