My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

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.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.