Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. They charge interest, upon interest, and upon this again interest, so that the poor man loses everything that he owns.

Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.