Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.
No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
He is rich who wishes no more than he has.
The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.