A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy.
He is the least in want who is the least covetous.
Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.
The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.
Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.
Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.
He who conquers his wrath overcomes his greatest enemy.
Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.
Through indecision opportunity is often lost.
It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.
Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.
Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.
Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].
At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.
Dangerous he who thinks it safe to die!
It is better to arouse envy than pity.
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
Money should be mastered, not served.
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
Never find delight in another's misfortune.
Cruelty isn't softened by tears; it feeds on them.
An evil conscience is often quiet, but never secure.
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