Modesty should accompany youth.
To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. Lat.
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
Flame is very near to smoke.
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
That least pleases us which is most urged on us.
Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.
He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce more trouble if you begin to equip them; neither are these two things ever equipped enough.
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
You drown him by your talk.
Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.