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

"Petit poisson deviendra grand."

"À l'œuvre, on connaît l'artisan."

"La fourmi n'est pas prêteuse; C'est là son moindre défaut."

"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…"