This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
Delusive hope still points to distant good.
The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).
If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.