Be smart, drink your wine.

Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.

As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

Faults are soon copied.

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.