I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, drinking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.

To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.

Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.

Plain as a nose in a man's face.