They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
There is truth in wine and children
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.
Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.