In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.
You are judged of by what you possess.
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.
Let Apella the Jew believe it.
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.