He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.
It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.
If you spend a thing you can not have it. [Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]
It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]
For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.
I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
He can do most who has most power.
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. [Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum; Nisi quis illud tractat aut movet, mutum est, tacet.]
That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.
Not every age is fit for childish sports.
Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.
He that's in love, i' faith, even if he is hungry, isn't hungry at all.
It is well for one to know more than he says.
To love is human, it is also human to forgive.
A mouse relies not solely on one hole.
It well becomes a young man to be modest.
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.
It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.
If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.
We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.
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