How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

I'd gladly do without a valet. I'm never so well treated as when I'm without a valet.

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.

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

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

I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.