Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.