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.]
What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. [Lat., Quod tuum'st meum'st; omne meum est autem tuum.]
Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]
If you spend a thing you can not have it. [Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]
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.]
Courage in danger is half the battle. [Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]
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 who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
I suspect that hunger was my mother.
It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.
Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.
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.
He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors. [Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]
All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.
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.
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
It well becomes a young man to be modest.
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.
To love is human, it is also human to forgive.
It is well for one to know more than he says.
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