Who's started has half finished.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]
Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.
The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.
Remember to be calm in adversity.
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.
Wisdom at times is found in folly.
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.
When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.
Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.
Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
No man is born without faults.
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.
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