- Clothes may disguise a fool, but his words give him away.
- Better poverty without care, than riches with a worried life.
- Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
- In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
- It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
- It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
- Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
- Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
- The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
- We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
- What a splendid head, yet no brain.
- Put your shoulder to the wheel.
- The gods help them that help themselves.
- Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
- It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
- Union gives strength.
- Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
- The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
- I am sure the grapes are sour.
- Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
- Familiarity breeds contempt.
- You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.
- The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
- United we stand; divided we fall.
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