“Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”
“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”
“The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.”
“...anyone who thinks that all fruits ripen at the same time as strawberries, knows nothing of grapes.”
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
“The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening. ”