Men must sweat to attain virtue.
If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.
Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
The half is greater than the whole.