There is an herb named in Latine Convolvulus (i.e. with wind), growing among shrubs and bushes, with carrieth a flower not unlike to this Lilly, save that it yeeldeth no smell nor hath those chives within; for whitenesse they resemble one another very much, as if Nature in making this floure were a learning and trying her skill how to frame the Lilly indeed.

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.

Truth comes out in wine.

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