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In wine, there is truth. - Pliny the Elder, Natural History 14 Wine gives strength to weary men. - Homer, Iliad 6 Wine leads to folly. It makes even the wisest laugh too much. It makes him dance. It makes him say what should have been left unsaid. - Homer, Odyssey. 14 Dionysos is a joy to mankind. - Homer, Iliad 14.325 When I take wine my cares go to rest. - Anacreon No man who is a wine-lover can be of low character. - Alexis When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they help their friends. - Aristophanes, the Knights Where there is no wine, love perishes, and everything else that is pleasant to man. - Euripides, the Bacchae Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire. - Plato, Laws Wine is a remedy for the morroseness of old age. - Plato, the Laws Who prates of war or want after taking wine? - Horace, Carmina 1 Wine is mighty to inspire new hopes and wash away bitter tears of care. - Horace, Carmina 4 Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward fight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes. - Horace, the Epistles Wine kindles wrath. - Seneca, De Ira Wine frees the soul of subservience, fear, and insincerity; it teaches men how to be truthful and candid with one another. - Plutarch, Mor. Symp. 7.10.2 Wine reveals what is hidden. - Eratosthenes Agreements arrived at over a glass of wine are the most sacred and inviolable of all agreements. - Plutarch, Mor. Symp. 1.1.2 The Scythians are the only people who drink wine without mixing any water with it. - Claudius Aelius, Varia Historia Though thou devour me down to the root, yet still will I bear so much fruit as will serve to pour libation on thee, O goat, when thou art sacrificed. - Evenius Repeat over the wine-cup the name of Zeus the Saviour as a warning and a reminder to drinkers that only by mixing the wine with water in this way will they be kept safe and sound. - Amphictyon It can even be considered gentlemanly to spend time drinking, provided that one does it with good taste, not drinking deeply, and not swigging it without a breath, in the Thracian fashion, but blending conversation with the drink as a health potion. - Athenaeus You see, this is the Greek way of drinking, using moderately sized cups and chattering and gossiping with each other pleasantly. - Alexis, the Aesop Seek not on my pages Priam at the altars nor Medea's and Niobe's woes, nor Itys in the hidden chambers, and the nightingales among the leaves; for of all these things former poets wrote abundantly; but mingling with the blithe Graces, sweet Love and the Wine-God; and grave looks become not them. - Strato From wine also perished the Centaur. - Nicarchus Wine has no rudder. - Greek Proverb With Mendaean wine the Gods themselves wet their palletes. And then there is Magnesiam, generous, sweet and smooth, and Thasian upon whose surface skates the perfume of apples; this I judge by far the best of all wines, except for blameless, painless Chian. - Dionysos, in Hermippus's play Dionysos: 'The fourth krater is mine no longer, but belongs to Hybris; the fifth to Shoutings; the sixth to Revels; the seventh to Blackeyes; the eighth to Sumonses; the ninth to Bile; and the tenth to Madness and people tossing furniture about.' - Eubulus To the must-drinking Satyrs and to Bacchus, planter of the vine, Heronax consecrated the first handfuls of his plantation, these three casks from three vineyards, filled with the first flow of the wine; from which we, having poured such libation as is meet to crimson Bacchus and the Satyrs, will drink deeper than they. - Leonidas of Tarentum Round-bellied, deftly-turned, one eared, long-throated, straight- necked, bubbling in thy narrow mouth, blithe handmaiden of Bacchus and the Muses and Cytherea, sweet of laughter, delightful ministress of social banquets, why when I am sober art thou in liquor, and when I am drunk, art sober again? Thou wrongest the good-fellowship of drinking. - Author Unknown It is characteristic of degenerates to take pleasure in wine rather than in their drinking partners. - Satyrus Xenophon the wine-bibber dedicates an empty jar to thee, Bacchus; receive it graciously, for it is all he has. - Eratosthenes In a company where all were drunk, Acindynus must needs be sober; and so he seemed himself the one drunk man there. - Lucian Let us bathe, Prodice, and garland ourselves, and drain unmixed wine, lifting larger cups; little is our life of gladness, then old age will stop the rest, and death is the end. - Rufinus I am armed against Love with a breastplate of Reason, neither shall he conquer me, one against one; yes, I a mortal will contend with him the immortal: but if he have Bacchus to second him, what can I do alone against the two? - Rufinus No plant should be planted in prefrence to the vine. - Alcaeus Toward evening, about supper-time, when the serious studies of the day are over, is the time to take wine. - Clement of Alexandria, Paedagogus 2 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. - Isaiah 55:1 And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the Lord for a drink offering. - Numbers 28:7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. - Isaiah 24:7-9 Wine, which cheereth God and man. - Judges 9:13 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.- Proverbs 20:1 Give strong drink to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. - Proverbs 31:6-7 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. - Joel 1:5 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry - Ecclesiastes 10:19 I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved - Song of Solomon 5:1 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. - Song of Solomon 7:9 Wine gladdens the heart of man. - Psalm 104:14-15 Wine taketh away understanding. - Hosea 4.11 And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, `The old is better.' - Luke 5:39 Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because
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