As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.

The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.

Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.