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.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

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.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

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

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.