“Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile”

“How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!”

“...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.”

“[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs,laugh like a fool – it drives theman to dancing... it eventempts him to blurt out storiesbetter never told.”

“Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,even so I will endure…For already have I suffered full much,and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.Let this be added to the tale of those.”

“There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through.”

“Too many kings can ruin an army”