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