Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.

When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.

Instead of using medicine, better fast today.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.