Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

At this the duchess, laughing all the while, said: "Sancho Panza is right in all he has said, and will be right in all he shall say.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

Honesty's the best policy.