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Every Man, However Wise, Needs The Advice Of Some Sagacious Friend In The Affairs Of Life.

No Man Will Be Respected By Others Who Is Despised By His Own Relatives.

Little Do You Know What A Gloriously Uncertain Thing Law Is.

Laws Are Subordinate To Custom.

Do You Never Look At Yourself When You Abuse Another Person?

Man Is A Wolf To Man. [lat., Homo Homini Lupus.]

To Ask That Which Is Unjust At The Hands Of The Just, Is An Injustice In Itself; To Expect That Which Is Just From The Unjust, Is Simple Folly.

Tattletales, And Those Who Listen To Their Slander, By My Good Will, Should All Be Hanged. The Former By Their Tongues, The Latter By Their Ears. [lat., Homines Qui Gestant, Quique Auscultant Crimina, Si Meo Arbitratu Liceat, Omnes Pendeant Gestores Linguis, Auditores Auribus.]

You Love A Nothing When You Love An Ingrate.

Your Tittle-tattlers, And Those Who Listen To Slander, By My Good Will Should All Be Hanged - The Former By Their Tongues, The Latter By The Ears.

Let Us Celebrate The Occasion With Wine And Sweet Words.

Arrogance Is The Outgrowth Of Prosperity.

The Man Who Masters His Own Soul Will Forever Be Called Conqueror Of Conquerors.

He Is A Friend Who, In Dubious Circumstances, Aids In Deeds When Deeds Are Necessary.

The Greatest Talents Often Lie Buried Out Of Sight.

He Whom The Gods Love Dies Young.

A Woman Finds It Much Easier To Do Ill Than Well. [lat., Mulieri Nimio Male Facere Melius Est Onus, Quam Bene.]

A Good Disposition I Far Prefer To Gold; For Gold Is The Gift Of Fortune; Goodness Of Disposition Is The Gift Of Nature. I Prefer Much Rather To Be Called Good Than Fortunate.

In Everything The Middle Course Is The Best; Everything In Excess Brings Trouble.

How Often We See The Greatest Genius Buried In Obscurity!

Because Those, Who Twit Others With Their Faults, Should Look At Home.

That Least Pleases Us Which Is Most Urged On Us.

Man Is No Man, But A Wolf

You Will Not Be A Chip The Richer.

It Is Difficult To Whistle And Drink At The Same Time.

Enemies Carry A Report In Form Different From The Original.

Never Speak Ill Of An Absent Friend.

Absent Mindedness

It Is Not Without A Purpose When A Rich Man Greets A Poor One With Kindness.

I Count Him Lost, Who Is Lost To Shame. [lat., Nam Ego Illum Periisse Duco, Cui Quidem Periit Pudor.]

Woman Is Certainly The Daughter Of Delay Personified!

The Bell Never Rings Of Itself; Unless Some One Handles Or Moves It It Is Dumb. [lat., Nunquam Aedepol Temere Tinniit Tintinnabulum; Nisi Quis Illud Tractat Aut Movet, Mutum Est, Tacet.]

Know This, That Troubles Come Swifter Than The Things We Desire.

This Is The Great Evil In Wine, It First Seizes The Feet; It Is A Cunning Wrestler. [lat., Magnum Hoc Vitium Vino Est, Pedes Captat Primum; Luctator Dolosu Est.]

Good Things Soon Find A Purchaser.

As Long As She Is Wise And Good, A Girl Has Sufficient Dowry.

I Esteem Death A Trifle, If Not Caused By Guilt.

Every One Can Remember That Which Has Interested Himself.

Nothing Is More Wretched Than The Mind Of A Man Conscious Of Guilt.

No One Can Be So Welcome A Guest That He Will Not Become An Annoyance When He Has Stayed Three Continuous Days In A Friend's House. [lat., Hospes Nullus Tam In Amici Hospitium Diverti Potest, Quin Ubi Triduum Continuum Fuerit Jam Odiosus Siet.

I Count Him Lost, Who Is Lost To Shame.

For I Know That Many Good Things Have Happened To Many, When Least Expected; And That Many Hopes Have Been Disappointed.

Wine Is A Cunning Wrestler.

It Is Our Human Lot, It Is Heaven's Will, That Sorrow Follow Joy.

Things We Not Hope For Often Come To Pass Than Things We Wish.

It Is Not Fair To Treat As Serious That Which Is Only Said In Joke.

I Love Truth And Wish To Have It Always Spoken To Me: I Hate A Liar. [lat., Ego Verum Amo, Verum Volo Mihi Dici; Mendacem Odi.]

He Who Is Most On His Guard Is Often Himself Taken In.

Modesty Should Accompany Youth.

Courage Is Its Own Reward.

I Am Undone! I Have Smashed The Waggon. [i Have Ruined All.]

Things We Do Not Expect, Happen More Frequently Than We Wish.

He Who Has In Due Season Become Rich, Unless He Saves In Due Season, Will In Due Season Starve.

One Eye Witness Is Better Than Ten Hear Sayers.

A Mouse Does Not Rely On Just One Hole.

The Man Who Would Be Fully Employed Should Procure A Ship Or A Woman, For No Two Things Produce More Trouble.

You Little Know What A Ticklish Thing It Is To Go To Law. [lat., Nescis Tu Quam Meticulosa Res Sit Ire Ad Judicem.]

Not By Age But By Capacity Is Wisdom Acquired.

Always Bring Money Along With Your Complaints.

All Good Men And Women Should Be On Their Guard To Avoid Guilt, And Even The Suspicion Of It.

Not Every Age Is Fit For Childish Sports.

Good Courage In A Bad Affair Is Half Of The Evil Overcome.

Man's Fortune Is Usually Changed At Once; Life Is Changeable. [lat., Actutum Fortunae Solent Mutarier; Varia Vita Est.]

Drink, Live Like The Greeks, Eat, Gorge.

Poverty Is A Thorough Instructress In All The Arts. [lat., Paupertas . . . Omnes Artes Perdocet.]

'he Means Well' Is Useless Unless He Does Well.

Courage Is To Take Hard Knocks Like A Man When Occasion Calls.

I Trust No Rich Man Who Is Officiously Kind To A Poor Man.

The Evil That We Know Is Best.

He That's In Love, I' Faith, Even If He Is Hungry, Isn't Hungry At All.

Let A Man Who Wants To Find Abundance Of Employment Procure A Woman And A Ship: For No Two Things Do Produce More Trouble If You Begin To Equip Them; Neither Are These Two Things Ever Equipped Enough.

When You Fly From Temptation, Don't Leave A Forwarding Address. Where There's Smoke There's Fire.

It Is The Nature Of The Unfortunate To Be Spiteful, And To Envy Those Who Are Well To Do.

Courage Is What Preserves Our Liberty, Safety, Life, And Our Homes And Parents, Our Country And Children. Courage Comprises All Things.

Virtue Is The Highest Reward. Virtue Truly Goes Before All Things. Liberty, Safety, Life, Property, Parents, Country, And Children Are Protected And Preserved. Virtue Has All Things In Herself; He Who Has Virtue Has All Things That Are Good Attending Him. [lat., Virtus Praemium Est Optimum. Virtus Omnibus Rebus Anteit Profecto. Libertas, Salus, Vita, Res, Parentes, Patria Et Prognati Tutantur, Servantur; Virtus Omnia In Se Habet; Omnia Assunt Bona, Quem Penes Est Vertus.]

A Woman Without Paint Is Like Food Without Salt.

To Blow And To Swallow At The Same Time Is Not Easy; I Cannot At The Same Time Be Here And Also There. [lat., Simul Flare Sorbereque Haud Facile Est: Ego Hic Esse Et Illic Simul, Haud Potui.]

Let Deeds Match Words.

Ones Oldest Friend Is The Best.

You Will Stir Up The Hornets. [lat., Irritabis Crabones.]

Modesty Becomes A Young Man. [lat., Adolescentem Verecundum Esse Decet.]

We Are Pouring Our Words Into A Sieve, And Lose Our Labor. [lat., In Pertusum Ingerimus Dicta Dolium, Operam Ludimus.]

To Waste One's Breath; To Pump Into A Sieve.

To An Honest Man, It Is An Honor To Have Remembered His Duty.

Where There Are Friends There Is Wealth.

The Gods Give That Man Some Profit To Whom They Are Propitious. [lat., Cui Homini Dii Propitii Sunt Aliquid Objiciunt Lucri.]

Practice Yourself What You Preach.

Practice What You Preach

It Is Wretched Business To Be Digging A Well Just As Thirst Is Mastering You.

He Who Bravely Endures Evils, In Time Reaps The Reward.

Remind A Man Of What He Remembers, And You Will Make Him Forget It.

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.

Men Understand The Worth Of Blessings Only When They Have Lost Them.

Food Of Acheron. (grave.) [lat., Pabulum Acheruntis.]

We Only Appreciate The Comforts Of Life In Their Loss.

In Everything The Middle Road Is Best.

Disgrace Is Immortal, And Living Even When One Thinks It Dead.

It Is Good To Love In A Moderate Degree; To Distraction, It Is Not Good; But To Love To Entire Distraction, Is The Thing That My Master's Doing.

And One Eye-witness Weighs More Than Ten Hear-fays. Seeing Is Believing, All The World O'er.

The Poor Man Who Enters Into A Partnership With One Who Is Rich Makes A Risky Venture.

A Woman Smells Well When She Smells Of Nothing.

I Seek The Utmost Pleasure And The Least Pain.

If You Are Content, You Have Enough To Live Comfortably.

One Eye-witness Is Of More Weight Than Ten Hearsays. Those Who Hear, Speak Of Shat They Have Heard; Whose Who See, Know Beyond Mistake. [lat., Pluris Est Oculatus Testis Unus, Quam Auriti Decem. Qui Audiunt, Audita Dicunt; Qui Vident, Plane Sciunt.]

To Love Is Human, It Is Also Human To Forgive.

All Men Love Themselves.

That Wife Is An Enemy To Her Husband Who Is Given In Marriage Against Her Will.

Love Has Both Its Gall And Honey In Abundance: It Has Sweetness To The Taste, But It Presents Bitterness Also To Satiety.

He That Would Eat The Nut Must Crack The Shell.

Let Not Your Expenditure Exceed Your Income.

There's No Such Thing, You Know, As Picking Out The Best Woman: It's Only A Question Of Comparative Badness, Brother.

In Grasping At Uncertainties We Lost That Which Is Certain.

He Who Falls In Love Meets A Worse Fate Than He Who Leaps From A Rock.

Falling In Love

That Man Is Worthless Who Knows How To Receive A Favor, But Not How To Return One.

What You Lend Is Lost; When You Ask For It Back, You May Find A Friend Made An Enemy By Your Kindness. If You Begin To Press Him Further, You Have The Choice Of Two Things - Either To Lose Your Loan Or Lose Your Friend.

Whatever Disgrace We May Have Deserved, It Is Almost Always In Our Power To Re-establish Our Character.

Let Deeds Correspond With Words. [lat., Dictis Facta Suppetant.]

Vulgarity Of Manners Defiles Fine Garments More Than Mud.

If You Want To Do Something, Do It!

A Mouse Relies Not Solely On One Hole.

He Who Tries To Protect Himself From Deception Is Often Cheated, Even When Most On His Guard.

Man Is Not Man, But A Wolf To Those He Does Not Know.

A Contented Mind Is The Best Source For Trouble.

The Sea Is Certainly Common To All.

No Man Has Perpetual Good Fortune. [lat., Nulli Est Homini Perpetuum Bonum.]

The Day, Water, Sun, Moon, Night - I Do Not Have To Purchase These Things With Money.

Spice A Dish With Love And It Pleases Every Palate.

Nothing But Heaven Itself Is Better Than A Friend Who Is Really A Friend.

If You Strike The Goads With Your Fists, Your Hands Suffer Most.

I Have Lost My Oil And My Labor. (labored In Vain.) [lat., Oleum Et Operam Perdidi.]

Nothing Is More Annoying Than A Tardy Friend. [lat., Tardo Amico Nihil Est Quidquam Iniquius.]

He Who Would Eat The Kernel, Must Crack The Shell. [lat., Qui E Nuce Nucleum Esse Vult, Frangat Nucem.]

Bad Conduct Soils The Finest Ornament More Than Filth.

You Must Spend Money, If You Wish To Make Money.

Feast To-day Makes Fast To-morrow. [lat., Festo Die Si Quid Prodegeris, Profesto Egere Liceat Nisi Peperceris.]

It Is Easier To Begin Well Than To Finish Well.

Are You Not Accustomed To Look At Home, When You Abuse Others?

I Have Taken A Wife, I Have Sold My Sovereignty For A Dowry. [lat., Uxorem Accepi, Dote Imperium Vendidi.]

It Is Best To Know The Worst At Once.

If Anything Is Spoken In Jest, It Is Not Fair To Turn It To Earnest.

If You Squander On A Holyday, You Will Want On A Workday Unless You Have Been Sparing.

How Often The Highest Talent Lurks In Obscurity.

Things Which You Do Not Hope Happen More Frequently Than Things Which You Do Hope.

It Is Well For One To Know More Than He Says.

I Much Prefer A Compliment, Even If Insincere, To Sincere Criticism.

Out Of Many Evils The Evil Which Is Least Is The Least Of Evils. [lat., E Malis Multis, Malum, Quod Minimum Est, Id Minimum Est Malum.]

A Word To The Wise Is Sufficient

I Regard That Man As Lost, Who Has Lost His Sense Of Shame.

That Man Will Never Be Unwelcome To Others Who Makes Himself Agreeable To His Own Family.

It Is Common To Forget A Man And Slight Him If His Good Will Cannot Help You.

No Man Is Wise Enough By Himself.

Wisdom Is Not Attained By Years, But By Ability

There Are Occasions When It Is Undoubtedly Better To Incur Loss Than To Make Gain.

Lost Friendship

Where There Are Sheep, The Wolves Are Never Very Far Away.

He Whom The Gods Love Dies Young, While He Is In Health, Has His Senses And His Judgments Sound.

It Does Not Matter A Feather Whether A Man Be Supported By Patron Or Client, If He Himself Wants Courage. [lat., Animus Tamen Omnia Vincit. Ille Etiam Vires Corpus Habere Facit.]

No Blessing Lasts Forever.

If I Can Only Keep My Good Name, I Shall Have Riches Enough.

Nothing Is There More Friendly To A Man Than A Friend In Need.

In Wondrous Ways Do The Gods Make Sport With Men. [lat., Miris Modis Di Ludos Faciunt Hominibus.]

Find Me A Reasonable Lover Against His Weight In Gold.

He Who Dies For Virtue Does Not Perish.

Courage In Danger Is Half The Battle. [lat., Bonus Animus In Mala Re, Dimidium Est Mali.]

Who Wishes To Give Himself An Abundance Of Business Let Him Equip These Two Things, A Ship And A Woman. For No Two Things Involve More Business, If You Have Begun To Fit Them Out. Nor Are These Two Things Ever Sufficiently Adorned, Nor Is Any Excess Of Adornment Enough For Them.

It Is A Bitter Disappointment When You Have Sown Benefits, To Reap Injuries.

Badly Gotten, Badly Spent. [lat., Male Partum, Male Disperit.]

He Whom The Gods Love Dies Young, Whilst He Is Full Of Health, Perception, And Judgment. [lat., Quem Dii Diligunt, Adolescens Moritur, Dum Valet, Sentit, Sapit.]

I Suspect That Hunger Was My Mother.

Fortune Moulds And Circumscribes Human Affairs As She Pleases. [lat., Fortuna Humana Fingit Artatque Ut Lubet.]

It Is Only When We Have Lost Them That We Fully Appreciate Our Blessings.

It Well Becomes A Young Man To Be Modest.

Smooth Words In Place Of Gifts. [lat., Dicta Docta Pro Datis.]

It Is Wisdom To Think Upon Anything Before We Execute It.

I Had Much Rather Be Adorned By Beauty Of Character Than By Jewels. Jewels Are The Gift Of Fortune, Character Comes From Within.

Patience Is The Best Remedy For Every Trouble.

To Make Any Gain Some Outlay Is Necessary.

There Are Games In Which It Is Better To Lose Than Win.

He Who Rushes Headlong Into Love Will Fare Worse Than If He Had Cast Himself From A Precipice.

To A Well Deserving Person God Will Show Favor. To An Ill Deserving Person He Will Simply Be Just.

Keep What You Have Got; The Known Evil Is Best. [lat., Habeas Ut Nactus; Nota Mala Res Optima Est.]

Slander-mongers And Those Who Listen To Slander, If I Had My Way, Would All Be Strung Up, The Talkers By The Tongue, The Listeners By The Ears.

The Gods Confound The Man Who First Found Out How To Distinguish Hours! Confound Him, Too, Who In This Place Set Up A Sun-dial, To Cut And Hack My Days So Wretchedly Into Small Portions.

This Is The Great Fault Of Wine; It First Trips Up The Feet: It Is A Cunning Wrestler.

The Stronger Always Succeeds.

That Which You Know, Know Not; And That Which You See, See Not.

How Great In Number Are The Little Minded Men

Good Merchandise, Even Hidden, Soon Finds Buyers.

Give Assistance, And Receive Thanks Lighter Than A Feather: Injure A Man, And His Wrath Will Be Like Lead.

For Enemies Carry About Slander Not In The Form In Which It Took Its Rise . The Scandal Of Men Is Everlasting; Even Then Does It Survive When You Would Suppose It To Be Dead.

The Prudent Man Really Frames His Own Fortunes For Himself.

For Nobody Is Curious, Who Isn't Malevolent.

That's A Miserable And Cursed Word, To Say I Had, When What I Have Is Nothing.

He Can Do Most Who Has Most Power.

It Is Much Easier To Begin Than To End.

Fortitude Is A Great Help In Distress.

Feast To-day Makes Fast To-morrow. Lat.

A Mouse Never Entrusts His Life To Only One Hole.

To Snatch The Worm From The Trap.

He Gains Wisdom In A Happy Way, Who Gains It By Another's Experience. [lat., Feliciter Sapit Qui Alieno Periculo Sapit.]

The Gods Play Games With Men As Balls.

He Is Happy In His Wisdom Who Has Learned At Another's Expense.

He Who Accuses Another Of Wrong Should Look Well Into His Own Conduct.

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