The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.

Where there's music there can be no evil.