When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
In every enterprise consider where you would come out.
He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice.
It matters not how long you live, but how well.
Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent
Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.