Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

Love not what you are but only what you may become.

Seek for good, but expect evil.

Until death it is all life.