The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

Delay always heeds danger.

The little birds have God for their caterer.

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.

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

Other men's pains are easily borne.

Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.