I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
Fortitude is a great help in distress.
Where there are friends there is wealth.
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.