A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.

If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.

Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.

We risk all in being too greedy.

The worst time is always the present.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.