Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy

In a heated argument we lose sight of the truth

When you are at sea, keep clear of the land

Necessity knows no law except to conquer

Anyone can hold the helm while the sea is calm

Friendship either finds or makes equals

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death

Debt is the slavery of the free

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy

Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe

If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

Confidence is the bond of friendship.

Fortune is like glass–the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill

Those who have never tried the experiment of a holy life measure the laws of God, not by their intrinsical goodness, but by the reluctancy and opposition which they find in their hearts

He gives the poor man twice as much good who gives quickly.

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears

The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

There is no safety in regaining the favor of an enemy

Fortune, when she caresses a man too much, makes him a fool

Fortune is like glass – the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.

One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people.

You should make a woman angry if you wish her to love

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Delay is hateful, but it gives wisdom