Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.

Fortune favors the audacious.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

Christians would show sense if they dispatched these argumentative Scotists and pigheaded Ockhamists and undefeated Albertists along with the whole regiment of Sophists to fight the Turks and Saracens instead of sending those armies of dull-witted soldiers with whom they've long been carrying on war with no result.

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

Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear he'll not find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them.

Prevention is better than cure.