If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.

Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive.

Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

Cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household.

Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases.