He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.
The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.
Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.
A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.
The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.
An angry lover tells himself many lies.
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.
He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.
It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.
There is no need of spurs when the horse is running away.
It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.
Always shun whatever may make you angry.
To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.
Divide the fire, and you will the sooner put it out.
The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.
No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.
The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it.
Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
Death laughs when old women frolic.
Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.
That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.
Shun an angry man for a moment-your enemy forever.
Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.
The empire of custom is most mighty.
Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.
With little loan you get a friend, with big loan an enemy.
The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.
Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
Every one excels in something in which another fails.
It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes
No one should be judge in his own case.
To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart.
Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.
Speech is the mirror of the soul.
No good man ever became suddenly rich.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!
He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.