Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

All the world will beat the man whom fortune buffets

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

If a friend tell thee a fault, imagine always that he telleth thee not the whole

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

A man is not good or bad for one action.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Eaten bread is forgotten.

Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.

Seeing is believing, but feeling’s the truth.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands

Debt is the worst poverty.

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Good is not good, where better is expected.

If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass

Don’t let your will roar when your power only whispers.

A man surprised is half beaten.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them

All doors open to courtesy

Birth is the beginning of death

Eaten bread is soon forgotten.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

Virtue is the only true nobility.

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,–as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is...

Enquire not what boils in another’s pot

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

Unschuld ist kein Schutz.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

He that travels much knows much.