Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
Medicine for the dead is too late
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
A liar ought to have a good memory.