God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.

I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach

Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.

Blessed ... is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.

When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.