When you are at sea, keep clear of the land.
One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.
We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.
When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
Take care that no one hates you justly.
In doubtful matters boldness is everything.
Every vice has its excuse ready.
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.
A great fortune enslaves its owner.
That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.
A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.
Suspicion is ever strong on the suffering side.
The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others.
The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.
He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
Every one excels in something in which another fails.
In every enterprise consider where you would come out.
Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.