"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! 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."