He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.
Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.
Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.
When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.
It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
Bad nature never lacks an instructor.
The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
If you can walk, you can run.
It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.
Gain cannot be made without some other person’s loss.
An evil gain equals a loss.
It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?
The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.
There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.
How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
Successful guilt is the bane of society.
He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.