Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
Men’s language is as their lives.
No one can have all he desires.
No one can keep a mask on long.
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.
So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.
So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.
The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.