"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."

"It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave."

"It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told."

"It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go."

"The fates have given mankind a patient soul."

"Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war."

"I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool."

"To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity."

"il faut laisser du temps au temps (you have to give time time - approximate translation)"

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

"Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it...."

"I'm against group sex because I wouldn't know where to put my elbows."