If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in.

I drink because I'm thirsty.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.