Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.