"(Nam) corporea pulchritudo in pelle solummodo constat. Nam si viderent homines hoc quod subtus pellem est, sicut lynces in Boetia cernere interiora feruntur, mulieres videre nausearent. Iste decor in flegmate, et sanguine, et humore, ac felle, consistit. Si quis enim considerat quae intra nares, et quae intra fauces, et quae intra ventrem lateant, sordes utique reperiet. Et si nec extremis digitis flegma vel stercus tangere patimur, quomodo ipsum stercoris saccum amplecti desideramus?"

"Vox, philomela, tua cantus edicere cogit, Inde tui laudem rustica lingua canit."

"Certum est enim, longos esse crines omnibus sed breves sensus mulieribus."

"Nam et escae execrantur quae saepius sumuntur."

"Nor is it proper or safe that all the keys of the kingdom should hang at the girdle of a woman."

"Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans."

"Vadis quo uis, morieris ubi debes."

"Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo."

"The hatred which is the degenerate product of love is the stubbornest."

"Meum est propositum in taberna mori: Vinum sit appositum morientis ori, Ut dicant cum venerint angelorum chori, Deus sit propitius huic potatori! Poculis accenditur animi lucerna; Cor imbutum nectare volat ad superna: Mihi sapit dulcius vinum in taberna, Quam quod aqua miscuit præsulis pincerna."

"The Cistercians...are wholly strange to the use of flesh. Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon—though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows."

"Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer."

"And because she is not given as slave-girl or as one to lord it over him, in the beginning she was not formed either from the highest part, nor from the lowest, but from the side of man, for the sake of conjugal partnership. If she had been made from the highest, as from the head, she might seem created for domination; but if from the lowest, as from the feet, she might seem to be created for subjection to slavery. But because she is taken neither as mistress, nor as slave-girl, she is made from the middle, that is, from the side, because she is taken for conjugal partnership."

"Ἐν γὰρ ταῖς ἡμέραις, φησί, Κωνσταντίου τοῦ βασιλέως, ἐν τῇ Θρᾴκῃ Οὐαλερίου ἄρχοντος, μήνυσις γέγονεν ὡς θησαυρὸς εὑρεθείη. Οὐαλέριος δὲ παρὰ τὸν τόπον παραγενόμενος μανθάνει παρὰ τῶν ἐπιχωρίων ἱερὸν εἶναι τὸν τόπον, καὶ ἐξ ἀρχαίας τελετῆς ἀνδριάντας ἐν αὐτῷ ἀφιερῶσθαι. Εἶτα ἀναφέρει ταῦτα τῷ βασιλεῖ, καὶ δέχεται γράμμα ἐπιτρέπον αὐτῷ ἀναλαβεῖν τὰ μηνυθέντα. Ἀνορυχθέντος τοίνυν τοῦ τόπου εὑρίσκονται τρεῖς ἀνδριάντες δι’ ὅλου ἐξ ἀργύρου πεποιημένοι, ἐν σχήματι βαρβαρικῷ κατακείμενοι καὶ ἐξηγκωνισμένοι κατ’ ἀμφοῖν ταῖν χεροῖν, ἐνδεδυμένοι δὲ βάρβαρον πεποικιλμένην ἐσθῆτα, καὶ κομῶντες τὰς κεφαλάς, νεύοντες ἐπὶ τὸ ἀρκτῷον μέρος, τουτέστι κατὰ τοῦ βαρβαρικοῦ χώρου. Ὧν ἀνδριάντων ἀναληφθέντων πάραυτα καὶ μετ’ ὀλίγας ἡμέρας πρῶτον μὲν τὸ Γότθων ἔθνος πᾶσαν ἐπιτρέχει τὴν Θρᾴκην, ἔμελλε δὲ μικρὸν ὕστερον καὶ τὸ τῶν Οὔννων καὶ τὸ τῶν Σαρματῶν καταδραμεῖσθαι τό τε Ἰλλυρικὸν καὶ αὐτὴν τὴν Θρᾴκην· ἐν μέσῳ γὰρ αὐτῆς τε Θρᾴκης καὶ τοῦ Ἰλλυρικοῦ κατέκειτο τὰ τῆς τελετῆς, καὶ ἐῴκει τῶν τριῶν ἀνδριάντων ὁ ἀριθμὸς κατὰ παντὸς τετελέσθαι βαρβάρου."

"When Almighty God, to beautify the nature of the world, willed that that earth should be visited by angels, when they were sent down they despised His laws. Such was the beauty of women, that it turned them aside; so that, being contaminated, they could not return to heaven. Rebels from God, they uttered words against Him. Then the Highest uttered His judgment against them; and from their seed giants are said to have been born. By them arts were made known in the earth, and they taught the dyeing of wool, and everything which is done; and to them, when they died, men erected images. But the Almighty, because they were of an evil seed, did not approve that, when dead, they should be brought back from death. Whence wandering they now subvert many bodies, and it is such as these especially that ye this day worship and pray to as gods."

"Nunc varios cantu divom referebat amores."

"Ecce furens post bella deus, post proelia victor victus amore venit."

"Cum nec tota latet nec totum nudat amorem."

"Discite securos non umquam credere amores."

"Deliciis Veneris dives Natura laborat."

"Ille inter flores furtivo lumine tectus spectat hians Venerem totoque ardore tremescit."

"Quam bene consertis haeserunt artubus artus!"

"Candidus alter erat levique decentior ovo et ridens oculis crinemque simillimus auro."

"Te sine, vae misero, mihi lilia nigra videntur nec sapiunt fontes et acescunt vina bibenti."

"Credere pastores, levibus nolite puellis."

"——— Satis hoc mercedis habeto, si laudem victor, si fert opprobria victus."

"Mille canum patriae ductique ab origine mores quoique sua."

"Aurea secura cum pace renascitur aetas et redit ad terras tandem squalore situque alma Themis positi iuvenemque beata sequuntur saecula, maternis causam qui vicit Iulis. dum populos deus ipse reget, dabit impia victas post tergum Bellona manus spoliataque telis in sua vesanos torquebit viscera morsus et, modo quae toto civilia distulit orbe, secum bella geret: nullos iam Roma Philippos deflebit, nullos ducet captiva triumphos; omnia Tartareo subigentur carcere bella immergentque caput tenebris lucemque timebunt."

"Este pares et ob hoc concordes vivite; nam vos et decor et cantus et amor sociavit et aetas."

"——— Sed lubricus errat mos et ab expertis festinant usibus omnes."

"Blandimenta vagae fugies novitatis."

"Omnia tela modi melius finxere salubres."

"Magnum opus et volucres quondam fecere sagittae."

"Mobilior ventis o femina!"

"Romani sermonis egent, ridendaque verba frangit ad horrificos turbida lingua sonos."

"Heu mala paupertas numquam locupletis avari! dum struere immodice quod tenet optat, eget."

"Heu misera in nimios hominum petulantia census!"

"Inter ista dona veris gemmeasque gratias omnium regina odorum vel colorum Lucifer auriflora praeminebat, flamma, Diones, rosa."

"Aurum, quod nigri manes, quod turbida versant flumina, quod duris extorsit poena metallis!"

"Omne nefas auro tegitur, fas proditur auro."

"Omne quod Natura parens creavit, quamlibet firmum videas, labascit: tempore ac longo fragile et caducum solvitur usu."

"Hic est ille, suis nimium qui credidit undis Narcissus vero dignus amore puer. cernis ab irriguo repetentem gramine ripas ut per quas periit crescere possit aquas."

"Crede ratem ventis, animum ne crede puellis; namque est feminea tutior unda fide. femina nulla bona est, vel, si bona contigit una, nescio quo fato est res mala facta bona."

"Beatior in hoc itinere vivendi, qui paupertate se sublevat, non sub divitiarum onere suspirat."

"Vos scelera admissa punitis, apud nos et cogitare peccare est; vos conscios timetis, nos etiam conscientiam solam."

"Actus hominis, non dignitas iudicentur."

"Nobilitate generosus es? Parentes tuos laudas? Omnes tamen pari sorte nascimur, sola virtute distinguimur."

"Quod est in liberis amabilius—adhuc annis innocentibus et adhuc dimidiata verba temptantibus, loquellam ipso offensantis linguae fragmine dulciorem."

"Hic non videri potest: visu clarior est; nec comprehendi: tactu purior est; nec aestimari: sensibus maior est, infinitus, immensus et soli sibi tantus, quantus est, notus."

"Non eloquimur magna sed vivimus."