Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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.
Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.