If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.

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.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

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

Giving words [is] an act of lovers.

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

Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.