The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

A bellyful is a bellyful

Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because...

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

No clock is more regular than the belly

I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

I drink no more than a sponge.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

Looking as like – as one pea does like another

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

The very well and abyss of an encyclopaedia.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

A young Saint – an old Devil, (mark this, an old saying, and as true a one as, a Young Whore an old Saint)

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

It is my opinion that time brings all things to fruition; by time all things are made plain; time is the father of truth.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.

The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

He 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbing.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

I drink no more than a sponge

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

A habit does not a monk make.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks

Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.