One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

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

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

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

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.