A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.
To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one’s self.
Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.
Through indecision opportunity is often lost.
Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.
When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.
A god could hardly love and be wise.
Love, like a tear, rises in the eye and falls upon the breast.
Lovers know what they want, but not what they need.
Man’s life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.
When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.
We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.
The future struggles that it may not become the past.