It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.

Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.

I am doubting what to do.