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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.
Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.
The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.
There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.
A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.
He who conquers his wrath overcomes his greatest enemy.
He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.
He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
No one should be judge in his own case.
Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.
For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.
Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.
With little loan you get a friend, with big loan an enemy.
You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.
Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.
Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!
An evil conscience is often quiet, but never secure.
Opportunity is lost by deliberation.
The friendship that can come to an end, never really began.
There is no need of spurs when the horse is running away.
Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.
Dangerous he who thinks it safe to die!
Union gives strength to the humble.
Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.
The future struggles that it may not become the past.
Confidence is the only bond of friendship.
There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.
You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.
Never find delight in another's misfortune.
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him.
Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents.
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.
Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.
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.
A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.
He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.
Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.
Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?
Through indecision opportunity is often lost.
They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.
It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.
Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.
A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.
One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.
Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
Friendship either finds or makes equals.
That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.
No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.
Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.
Shun an angry man for a moment-your enemy forever.
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