So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.

The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

It is wrong to follow the advice of an adversary; nevertheless it is right to hear it, that you may do the contrary; and this is the essence of good policy.

No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like a vision, and this vanishes like a dream.

Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.