Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.
Music is an incitement to love.
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
Amiability shines by its own light.
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.