There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.

Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?

Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

Man is no man, but a wolf

He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.