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.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

It is not permitted that we should know everything.

A greater liar than the Parthians.