Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye.

Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.

What is done hastily cannot be done prudently.

He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.