The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport. [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.].

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings..

One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all..

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains..

A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, an….

The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine..

Now drown care in wine. [Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.].

I shall not altogether die..

The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes..

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul..

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.).

Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion..

Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dul….

He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death..

The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof..

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means f….

Wine unlocks the breast..

Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause..

Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest..

Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty..

O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, ….