Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.
A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
The lesser of two evils is still evil.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Jealousy is cruel as a tomb, its embers are embers of fire.