It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.

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.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

No clock is more regular than the belly.

To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.