Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.

We are the buffoons of our children.

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.