Flight without feathers is not easy.
— Plautus
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
No blessing lasts forever.
Your wealth is where your friends are.
How great in number are the little minded men.
The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
It well becomes a young man to be modest.
A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
'He means well' is useless unless he does well.
Where there are friends there is wealth.
Courage in danger is half the battle.
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
Persevere in virtue and diligence.
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
It is well for one to know more than he says.
The evil that we know is best.
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
Let deeds match words.
You must spend money to make money.
Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
A word to the wise is enough.
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Keep what you have; the known evil is best.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Laws are subordinate to custom.
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
Conquered, we conquer.
