Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

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

Where there is unity there is always victory.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

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

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

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

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

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

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

Speech is the mirror of the soul.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

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

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

It is better to learn late than never.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Take care that no one hates you justly.

A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

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

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

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

He who spares the bad injures the good.

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

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