It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)
The happier the moment the shorter.
Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.