Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.

Being, be bold and venture to be wise.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.