But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.

A light purse is a heavy curse.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Never praise your cider or your horse

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?