We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.
To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.
Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Music is an incitement to love.