Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
Some evils are cured by contempt.
Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game.
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.