“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”

“Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“The saviour answered...and said, If you want to be perfect, you will keep these teachings. If not, you deserve to be called ignorant. For a wise person cannot associate with a fool. The wise person is perfect in all wisdom, but to the fool, good and evil are one and the same. For the wise person will be nourished by the truth...Some people have wings but run after what they can see, what is far from the truth.”

“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”

“Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree; And only God who makes the tree Also makes the fools like me. But only fools like me, you see, Can make a God, who makes a tree.”