It is better to have a little than nothing.
When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.
In doubtful matters boldness is everything.
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
Look for a tough wedge for a tough log.
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.
Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!
The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.
All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.
There is more of fear than delight in a secret pleasure.
Through indecision opportunity is often lost.
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them
What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered.
Take care that no one hates you justly.
To die at the command of another is to die twice.
When you can despise death, you have conquered all fears.
Any one can hold the helm when the seas are calm.
Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.
Never thrust your sickle into another's corn.
A friend must not be injured, even in jest.
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.
The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
We should lay up in peace what we shall need in war.
One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.
Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.
Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent
Practice is the best of all instructors.
It is a bad plan that cannot be altered.
It is bad advice that cannot be changed.
Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety.
To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.
Cruelty isn't softened by tears; it feeds on them.
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about.
The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.