Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.
If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!
Experience is the only good 'tis safer to borrow than to buy.
It needs as much generosity to take as to give.
Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.
As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.