"The ascetic scorns the drunkard, but who knows which of them is the greater sinner?"

"Be not beguiled by world's delusive toy; The more you grasp, the more you lose the joy."

"Go, tell the pious man to burn his prayer-book; his prayers are but hypocrisy."

"Love is a fire that burns everything but the beloved."

"Saki! with the light of wine, up-kindle the cup of ours. Minstrel! speak, saying: The worlds work hath gone to the desire of ours."