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.
Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.