Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

The ass bears the load, but not the overload.