It well becomes a young man to be modest.
What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things - either to lose your loan or lose your friend.
Man proposes, God disposes.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
You drown him by your talk.
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.