If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.
Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.