Every man is the son of his own works.

Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.

I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.

Dine on little, and sup on less.