A friend is a person with whom you dare to be yourself
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
I will be your friend, but not your vice’s friend.
A friend that you buy with presents will be bought from you.
A wicked companion invites us all to hell.
He will never get to Heaven, that desires to go there alone.
He who imparts wisdom to another purifies and exalts his own mind.
Teaching of others teaches the teacher.
‘Tis in vain to speak reason where it will not be heard.
Argument seldom convinces any one contrary to his inclinations.
If the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.
Truth may sometimes come out of the Devil’s mouth.
Truth needs not many words; but a false tale, a large preamble.
If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself.
Men work but slowly, that have poor wages.
Men are less eager for what they may have than what they cannot obtain.
For one rich man that is content there are a hundred who are not.
If you make money your God, it will plague you like a Devil.
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
A man may be happy here and hereafter without much fame or wealth.
It is good pride to desire to be the best of men.
A man may have a just esteem of himself without being proud.
Sickness is felt, but health not at all.
Sickness will spoil the happiness of an emperor, as well as mine.
Against the wild-fire of the mob there’s no defensee.
Do as others do, and few will mock you.
Do as most do, and men will speak well of you.
The envious hurts others something, but himself very much.
A wicked man is his own hell; and his passions and lusts the fiends that torment him.
As virtue is its own reward, so vice is its own punishment.
He that resists his own evil inclinations obeys God.
Do all you can to be good, and you’ll be so.
Good deeds remain; all things else perish.
He benefits himself, that does good to others.
The true gentleman is God’s servant, the world’s master, and his own man.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
He that lives a knave will hardly die an honest man.
Heaven is a cheap purchase, whatever it cost.
Man had perished long ago, had it not been for public spirited persons.
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
Money talks—mostly lies.
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
We think all men mortal but ourselves.
We too often love things and use people, when we should be using things and loving people.
Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Thirty is the turning point in a man’s life.
You gain power over another person by winning his heart or by breaking his spirit.
The gods delight to see a man struggling to succeed.
It is easier to prevent ill habits than to break them.
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
A fair booty makes many a thief.
A stumble may prevent a fall.
Adversity oftentimes leads to prosperity.
Anger is short-lived in a good man.
Bad excuses are worse than none.
Better go back than lose yourself.
Best dealing with an enemy when you take him at his weakest.
Bitter pills may have wholesome effects.
Correction should not respect so much what is past, as what is to come.
One danger is seldom overcome without another.
None can think so well of others as most do of themselves.
Everyone thinks himself able to advise another.
Every fool can find faults that a great many wise men can’t remedy.
Everything has its time, and that time must be watched.
Fear can keep a man out of danger, but courage only can support him in it.
Flattery fits in the parlor when plain dealing is kicked out of doors.
Friendship and company are a bad excuse for ill actions.
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
He invites future injuries, who rewards past ones.
He is no wise man, that cannot play the fool upon occasion.
He is not a virtuous man, that loves it not even in an enemy.
He shall have enough to do, who studies to please fools.
He that falls today may be up again tomorrow.
He that follows Nature is never out of his way.
He that has most time has none to lose.
To blush at vice shows the world you are ashamed of it.
He that has no shame has no conscience.
He that stays in the valley shall never get over the hill.
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
Everyone’s faults are not written in their foreheads.
He that would right understand a man must read his whole story.
At the end of the work, you may judge of the Wwrkman.
Our pity is often misapplied; for none can tell what another feels.
The first step to virtue is to love virtue in another man.
The maintaining of one vice costs more than ten virtues.
He that lives on hope has but a slender diet.
He that speaks ill of his wife dishonors himself.
If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
If we be enemies to ourselves, whither shall we fly?
It is in vain to use words when deeds are expected.
Justice will not condemn even the Devil himself wrongfully.
Kings have no power over souls.
Man begins to die before he is born.
Many get into a dispute well that cannot get out well.
Natural folly is bad enough; but learned folly is intolerable.
No man can always stand his ground.
One cannot live by selling goods for words.
One may be confuted, and yet not convinced.
Play may be good, but folly can never be of any use.
Praise not the ford till you are safe over.
Quarrels could not last long, were but prudence on one side.
Seek not to reform every one’s dial by your own watch.
Solitude dulls the thought, too much company dissipates it.
Some men's No is better received than others Yea.
That sick man is not to be pitied, who has his cure in his sleeve.
The greatest barkers are not the greatest biters.
The nature of things will not be altered by our fancies of them.
The race is got by running.
The usefullest truths are the plainest.
The vulgar will keep no account of your hits, but of your misses.
The way to be safe is never to be secure.
There is no usual rule without an exception.
They love dancing well, that dance barefoot upon thorns.
Things not understood are admired.
‘Tis harder to unlearn than learn.
This, or any moment, may be your last.
Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.