That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Envy aims very high.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

You will go most safely in the middle.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Skill makes love unending.

Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

Art lies by its own artifice.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when...

Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Time is generally the best doctor.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

The gods behold all righteous actions.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Venus favors the bold.

Love is full of anxious fears.

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Habits change into character.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

‘Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.