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

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.

We are the buffoons of our children.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

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