Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.

Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.

He preaches well that lives well

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.

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