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It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.
We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.
He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
You will stir up the hornets. [Lat., Irritabis crabones.]
How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.
He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.
Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.
A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.
Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]
Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
Badly gotten, badly spent. [Lat., Male partum, male disperit.]
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Smooth words in place of gifts. [Lat., Dicta docta pro datis.]
Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
Let deeds correspond with words. [Lat., Dictis facta suppetant.]
I am myself my own commander. [Lat., Egomet sum mihi imperator.]
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.