Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!

It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.

Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.