"The proof of the pudding is in the eating."

"The greatest misfortune of all is to have been happy."

"The devil, in his malice, has put into the world a great number of books that are called chivalric romances, which, though they are full of lies and follies, are read with great pleasure by many peopl…"

"The wounds received in battle are honorable, but those received by the tongue are incurable."

"The greatest madness a man can commit in this life is to let himself die without being killed by anyone, or without being killed by his own hand, only by melancholy."