Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.

There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.

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

No clock is more regular than the belly.

Don't limp in front of the lame.

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.