Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind..

Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove..

He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow..

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool..

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools..

Let Apella the Jew believe it..

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid..

The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life..

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him..

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant..

We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it. [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus, Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.].

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres..

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do..

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura….

Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed fro….

With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate..

It is grievous to be caught..

Who has self-confidence will lead the rest..

He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth..

Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible..

Tear thyself from delay..