Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.
Love is a thing full of anxious fears.
Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow.
By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.
Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.
Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.