Want of pluck shows want of blood
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)
Fortune sides with he who dares
It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - -there's the rub.