What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.