Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.

I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.

Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!

Music is an incitement to love.

I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?