It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

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

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.

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