Fortitude is a great help in distress.
Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils. [Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.]
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best. [Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]
If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]
It is easy to rule over the good.
He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment. [Lat., Quem dii diligunt, Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.]
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there. [Lat., Simul flare sorbereque haud facile Est: ego hic esse et illic simul, haud potui.]
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.]
He can do most who has most power.
We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus. Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]
It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.
Man is a wolf to man. [Lat., Homo homini lupus.]
A mouse relies not solely on one hole.
He whom the Gods love dies young.
He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.
He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.
Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.
The mind is hopeful; success is in God's hands. [Lat., Sperat quidem animus: quo eveniat, diis in manu est.]
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
It well becomes a young man to be modest.
It is well for one to know more than he says.
He that's in love, i' faith, even if he is hungry, isn't hungry at all.
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