What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
I strive to be brief, and become obscure.
Humble things become the humble.
Nothing is achieved without toil.
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.