Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.