Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].
We may with advantage at times forget what we know.