It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

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

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?

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.