When we are asleep, we are all equal.

A man prepared has half fought the battle.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

Other men's pains are easily borne.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.