Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

Nothing is achieved without toil.

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.