Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well

Where there is unity there is always victory.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. – Maxims

A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.

Never promise more than you can perform.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety

He must fear many whom many fear

Formidable is that enemy that lies hid in a man’s own breast

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. We choose to love, we do not choose to cease loving.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

The next day is never so good as the day before.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

Never thrust your sickle into another’s corn

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

It is not every question which deserves an answer.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

A god could hardly love and be wise

What is left when honor is lost?

No man is happy who does not think himself so

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

To accept a benefit is to sell one’s freedom

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

There is no medicine to cure hatred.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

The judge is condemned when the criminal is acquitted

It is better to learn late than never.

Gain cannot be made without some other person’s loss

Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.

Even when there is no law, there is conscience

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense

To do two things at once is to do neither.

When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray

We Are Interested In Others When They Are Interested In Us

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

Look for a tough wedge for a tough log

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others