There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
A woman without paint is like food without salt.
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
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.
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.