Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

There is no proverb that is not true.

Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.

Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.

Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.