What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.
It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop