 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. |
