In wine, there's truth.

The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.

The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys orders, remembers duties that it has been taught, is pleased by affection and by marks of honour, nay more it possesses virtues rare even in man, honesty, wisdom, justice, also respect for the stars and reverence for the sun and moon.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.