The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.
Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.