The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
— Publilius Syrus
The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
He who spares the bad injures the good.
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
Never promise more than you can perform.
Where there is unity there is always victory.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
Speech is the mirror of the soul.
One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
We die as often as we lose a friend.
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
They do injury to the good who spares the bad.
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
