When you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire.
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
A word to the wise is sufficient
'He means well' is useless unless he does well.
In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.