If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.
Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]
Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.
A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.
Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.