If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.
The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.
Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.
Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.
The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.