Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.