There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Courage conquers all things.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

It is the mind that makes the man.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.