I build only living stones--men.

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.

I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.

No noble man ever hated good wine.

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.

A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).