Never fear quarrels, but seek adventures.
I have taught you how to handle a sword; you have thews of iron, a wrist of steel.

Fight on all occasions.

Fight the more for duels being forbidden, since consequently there is twice as much courage in fighting.

I have nothing to give you, my son, but fifteen crowns, my horse, and the counsels you have just heard.

Your mother will add to them a recipe for a certain balsam, which she had from a Bohemian and which has the miraculous virtue of curing all wounds that do not reach the heart.