"Un tiens vaut, ce dit-on, mieux que deux tu l'auras."

"Petit poisson deviendra grand."

"À l'œuvre, on connaît l'artisan."

"Apprenez que tout flatteur Vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute."

"Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire."

"Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than …"

"Je vais t'entretenir de moindres aventures, Te tracer en ces vers de légères peintures; Et si de t'agréer je n'emport…"

"People must help one another; it is nature's law."

"We then saw what St. Jerome said of those who serve God and those who serve the world: "Each to the other we seem ins…"

"To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; t…"