Hues charming and fair may move the wise and not the dullard.

Mighty love turns the son of men from wise to fool.
This is shrewd, and it contains a very remarkable bit of esthetic truth, that it requires a wise man to see certain kinds of beauty, which a stupid man could never be made to understand.

And, leaving aside the subject of love, what very good advice it is never to laugh at a person for what can be considered a common failure.

In the same way an intelligent man should learn to be patient with the unintelligent, as the same poem elsewhere insists.
Now what is the general result of this little study, the general impression that it leaves upon the mind?
Certainly we feel that the life reflected in these sentences was a life in which caution was above all things necessary--caution in thought and speech and act, never ceasing, by night or day, during the whole of a man's life.

Caution implies moderation.