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.

Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.

Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

Your wealth is where your friends are

Never speak ill of an absent friend.