Look for a tough wedge for a tough log.
What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?
It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.
It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.
Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.
An end to our getting is the only end to our losses.
He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.
To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them.
Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.
He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it.
You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.
The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
It is of no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.