From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.