"Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine."
"If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity."
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Source: Wallenstein's Lager, XI. 347 in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 758), 1922.
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