At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man’s work.
When reason rules, money is a blessing.
The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium.
Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur.
It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes.
Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little.
Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Other people’s things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent.
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Even one hair has a shadow.
Where there is unity, there is the victory.