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Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers, but he is a laughing-stock to those who know him.

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

Jupiter has placed upon us two wallets. Hanging behind each person's back he has given one full of his own faults; in front he has hung a heavy one full of other people's.

They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late repentance.

Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain.

A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.

What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury?

He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted against his own interest.

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

Since you go where all have gone before, why do you torment your your disgraceful life with such mean ambitions, O miser?

Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity the scorn even of the base.

Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many.

I never knew any many in my life, who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

Out of breath to no purpose, in doing much doing nothing. A race hurtful to itself and most hateful to all others.

Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.

All the old knives That have rusted in my back, I drive in yours.