A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.
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.
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.