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.
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.
Make a good use of the present.