No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.

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

The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys orders, remembers duties that it has been taught, is pleased by affection and by marks of honour, nay more it possesses virtues rare even in man, honesty, wisdom, justice, also respect for the stars and reverence for the sun and moon.

The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.

The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.