The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

Nothing can be produced out of nothing.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

There is a false love that will make you something you are not.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.