That should be considered long which can be decided but once.

There is no medicine to cure hatred.

The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]