He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.

Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.

But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.

I drink for the thirst to come.