Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you’re not.
Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.
Time and place often give advantage to the weak over the strong.
Good things come in small packages.
Pride goes before destruction.
Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.
Don’t make much ado about nothing.
The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.
The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise!
After the rain cometh the fair weather.
Change of habit cannot alter Nature.
One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.
Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.
Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.
False friends leave you in times of trouble.
Obscurity often brings safety.
Acquaintance softens prejudice.
The strong and the weak cannot keep company.
Each person has his strong point.
We learn from the things we suffer.