Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocency

He who yields to his times acts wisely

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.

You’ll repent if you marry, and repent if you don’t.

The empire of custom is most mighty.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Frugality is misery in disguise

He can best avoid a snare who knows how to set one

In quarreling the truth is always lost

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

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.