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

Never did a great man hate good wine.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

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.

If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.

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

No clock is more regular than the belly.