When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.

Appetite comes with eating.

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

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

Giving words [is] an act of lovers.

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.