When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.
With little loan you get a friend, with big loan an enemy.
Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.