The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.
Seek for good, but expect evil.
Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.
Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
The absent feel and fear every ill.
It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.
All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.
For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.
In hell there is no retention.
Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
Man have to have friends even in hell.
Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man’s thoughts.
Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.
He who’s never loved cannot be good.
There is no proverb that is not true.