Misery is the company of lawsuits.

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

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.

Plain as a nose in a man's face.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.

The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible ..., we'll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.