Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

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.