Man proposes, God disposes.
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law. [Lat., Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem.]
To snatch the worm from the trap.
To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.
Fire is next akin to smoke.
Good things soon find a purchaser.
He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.]
Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
You will not be a chip the richer.
Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
The evil that we know is best.
If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman. [Lat., Nam multum loquaces merito omnes habemus, Nec mutam profecto repertam ullam esse Hodie dicunt mulierem ullo in seculo.]
Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]
A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended. [Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis, Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]
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