It is easy to rule over the good.
It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
It is well for one to know more than he says.
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.