Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.

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

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.