Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
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.