All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.
A word to the wise is sufficient.
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
It well becomes a young man to be modest.
Laws are subordinate to custom.
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.
Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
He that is in love, faith, if he be hungry, is not hungry at all.
It is well for one to know more than he says.
Never speak ill of an absent friend.