Love's a danger that quickly fades
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves
Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtuous, as men become more so.