Give your friend cause to blush, and you will be likely to lose him.
Only the bold get to the top.
There is no safety in regaining the favor of an enemy.
The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
Each day should be passed as though it were our last.
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Opportunity is lost by deliberation.
There is no pain in the wound received in the moment of victory.
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.
To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.
When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
Repentance follows hasty counsels.
Excessive severity misses its own aim.
An end to our getting is the only end to our losses.
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.
He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.
It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.
Union gives strength to the humble.
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
You don't know what you can do until you try.
A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy.
We die as often as we lose a friend.
Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.