Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.