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.

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.

And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.