Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.

I'd gladly do without a valet. I'm never so well treated as when I'm without a valet.

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.

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.