In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)
His only fault is that he has no fault.
Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.