A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.

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

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.

Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.