The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.
Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.
It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.