“To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.”

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

If a little is not enough for you, nothing is.

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.

There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.

Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.

I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

This drink has a magical power. It strengthens the weak, and revives those who have fainted. Those tired after work and physical activity can return their life forces by this drink much sooner than by nourishment. It works as a diuretic, an appetizer, an antitoxin.