“Saints live in flames; wise men, next to them.”

“Shadow in the flame. The flame is not so bright to itself as to those on whom it shines: so too the wise man.”

“Cast me into a dungeon;, burn me at the state, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives -- but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it.”

“1577. Fools make Feasts, and wise Men eat them.”

“If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.”

“Some men, like a tiled house, are long before they take fire, but once on flame there is no coming near to quench them.”

“Believe me, wise men don't say ‘I shall live to do that’, tomorrow's life is too late; live today.”
Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere ‘Vivam’: Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie.

“Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.”

“Flames were rising from the waters and in the flames a blue man lived.”

“A wise man poor
Is like a sacred book that’s never read,—
To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool
Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.”