Vice is but a nurse of agonies.
The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.