Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.
A man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.
Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.
There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.
Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.
The bold are helpless without cleverness.
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.