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

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.