More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.