It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
The power of habit is very strong.
To-day is the pupil of yesterday
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
We may with advantage at times forget what we know.
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.
Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.
No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.
He is the least in want who is the least covetous.
Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.
There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.
Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.
A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.
A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.
To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
Wise man also fears a weak enemy.
We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.
Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.
Lovers know what they want, but not what they need.
All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.
He who wrongs one threatens many.
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores.
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?
Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.
Be your money's master, not its slave.
Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.
You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
It is time, not the mind, that puts an end to love.
When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.
Wisdom had rather be buffeted than not listened to.
The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
Solitude is the mother of anxieties.
When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.
Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
He who spares the bad injures the good.
A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.
He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.
Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.