Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes
True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
With life many things are remedied.