To begin an affair is to have it half finished.”—II. 33.
“At night all cats are grey.”—II. 33.
“Nobody is born learned; and (even) bishops are made of men.”—II. 33.
“I am an old dog, and ‘tus, tus,’ will not do for me.”—II. 33, 69.
“A good name is better than great riches.”—II. 33.
“The corpse of the Pope takes no more ground than that of the sacristan.”—II. 33.
“The fire gives light, and the flames brightness, and yet they may both destroy us.”—II. 34.
“We make less account of that which costs us little.”—II. 34.
“A good heart overcomes evil fortune.—II. 35.
“The ass laden with gold mounts lightly up the hill.”—II. 35.