You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.

Cats know not how to pardon.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.