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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

No clock is more regular than the belly.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

A bellyful is a bellyful.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

I drink no more than a sponge.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

A habit does not a monk make.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

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.

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

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