The honied tongue hath its poison.
Debt is the slavery of the free.
Even when there is no law, there is conscience.
Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.
Successful guilt is the bane of society
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
No one know what he can do till he tries.
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it.
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
All powerful is the rule of fashion.
Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.
That should be considered long which can be decided but once.
It is better to learn late than never.
It matters not how long you live, but how well.
Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.
It is of no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.
Suspicion is ever strong on the suffering side.
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
If you would live innocently, seek solitude.
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
The best remedy for an injury is to forget it.
In every enterprise consider where you would come out.
They live ill who expect to live always.
The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.
The losing side is full of suspicion.
The future struggles that it may not become the past.
They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.
The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.
Frugality is misery in disguise.
Friendship either finds or makes equals.
A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.
He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.
He who conquers his wrath overcomes his greatest enemy.
Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.
Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.
When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.
Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little.
At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.
It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.
We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.
Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.
Prosperity has no power over adversity.