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.

No blessing lasts forever.

Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.