“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! reced, leget.
— Martial.

“Miculx 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.”