Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.
If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.