Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.