Virtue is the truest nobility.

In hell there is no retention.

For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.