Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.
Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.
Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.
Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.