“Apprenez que tout flatteurVit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute :Cette leçon vaut bien un fromage, sans doute.Flatterers thrive on fools' credulity.The lesson's worth a cheese, don't you agree?”

“Todos los cerebros del mundo son impotentes contra cualquier estupidez que esté de moda.”

“Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.”

“A menudo encontramos nuestro destino por los caminos que tomamos para evitarlo.”

“I don't believe that Nature's powersHave tied her hands or pinioned ours,By marking on the heavenly vaultOur fate without mistake or fault.That fate depends on conjunctionsOf places, persons, times, and tracks,And not on the functionsOf more or less of quacks.”

“Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.”

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”