In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will. |
I drink no more than a sponge. |
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. |
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. |
Tell the truth and shame the devil. |
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. |
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass. |
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains. |
A habit does not a monk make. |
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man. |
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools. |
It is my opinion that time brings all things to fruition; by time all things are made plain; time is the father of truth. |
Everything comes in time to those who can wait. |
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth. |
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps. |
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him. |
Ignorance is the mother of all evils. |
To good and true love fear is forever affixed. |
No clock is more regular than the belly. |
Half the world does not know how the other half lives. |