No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.
What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.
Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.
That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
You will be safest in the middle.