Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.

Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.

Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.