Rule your mind or it will rule you.

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!

I was what you are, you will be what I am.

Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.