Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant
Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.
Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a more unfortunate wretch than the oppressor; for in the day of adversity nobody is his friend.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
Whenever thy hand can reach it, tear out the foe's brain, for such an opportunity washes anger from the mind.