Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever..

The love of wine is a good man's failing..

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today..

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever..

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?.

What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!.

High thoughts must have high language..

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!.

I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face..

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner..

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life..

Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his conscience wakes, And prompts hi….

Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous cre….

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened o….

It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy..

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe..

You will never make the crab walk straight..

Wealth--the most excellent of all gods..

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!.

Old age is but a second childhood..

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod..