“A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.”
“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”
“There are some remedies worse than the disease.”
“A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.”
“The next day is never so good as the day before.”
“It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.”
“Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.”
“It is not every question that deserves an answer.”
“All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.”
“Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.”
“It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.”
“Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.”
“The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.”
“It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.”
“Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.”
“A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.”
“No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.”
“If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.”
“The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.”
“From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.”
“The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.”
“Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.”
“Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.”
“To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.”
“You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.”
“Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.”
“Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.”
“The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.”
“One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people.”
“Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.”