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.

Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.