“Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day’s life of one who is wise and meditative.”
“I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,If one be better with them or without,Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,Knows the high art of what and how to read.”
“Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.”
“I'd rather live laughing for one year than live without laughing for one hundred.”
“Moderately wise each one should be,Not overwise, for a wise man's heartIs seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)”
“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”