- ‘Twas but my tongue, ’twas not my soul that swore.
- Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
- Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
- Authority is never without hate.
- Better a serpent than a stepmother!
- But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
- Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
- Cleverness is not wisdom.
- Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man’s eyes.
- Do not consider painful what is good for you.
- Do not plan for ventures before finishing what’s at hand.
- Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.
- Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
- Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
- Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
- Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
- God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
- Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
- He is not a lover who does not love forever.
- He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
- Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
- I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
- Ignorance of one’s misfortunes is clear gain.
- Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
- In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
- It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
- Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
- Leave no stone unturned.
- Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
- Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
- Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
- Luckier than one’s neighbor, but still not happy.
- Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
- Much effort, much prosperity.
- New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
- No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
- No one is happy all his life long.
- No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
- No one who lives in error is free.
- Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
- One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
- One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Prosperity is full of friends.
- Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
- Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.
- Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
- Slight not what’s near through aiming at what’s far.
- Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise.
- Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
- Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
- The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
- The best of seers is he who guesses well.
- The bold are helpless without cleverness.
- The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
- The greatest pleasure of life is love.
- The lucky person passes for a genius.
- The wavering mind is but a base possession.
- There is just one life for each of us: our own.
- There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
- There is the sky, which is all men’s together.
- This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.
- Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
- To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
- To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
- Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
- When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
- Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
- Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”
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