The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.

All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.

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.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries," I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.

A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).