لا لابرار كلّ شى برّ
"TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE"
(Puris omnia pura)
—Arab Proverb.
"Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole."
—"Decameron"—conclusion.
"Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum
- Sed coram Bruto. Brute I recede, leget."
—Martial.
"Mieulx est de ris que de larmes escripre,
- Pour ce que rire est le propre des hommes."
—Rabelais.
"The pleasure we derive from perusing the Thousand-and-One Stories makes us regret that we possess only a comparatively small part of these truly enchanting fictions."
—Crichton's "History of Arabia.