| To saints their very slumber is a prayer. |
| When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. |
| The friendship that can cease has never been real. |
| An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled. |
| A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts. |
| The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. |
| Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach' |
| The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be. |
| No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. |
| The scars of others should teach us caution. |
| It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. |
| Never look a gift horse in the mouth. |
| The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. |
