Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman’s mind?
For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
Well, there’s a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
The wicked are always ungrateful.
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.