Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth, do not be beguiledby these idle and useless pilgrimages. See to your families, and work, each one of you, in your vocation, raise your children, and live as the good Apostle Paul teaches you.

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

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.