Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'
Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.
If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.