Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
I bend but I do not break.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
Help yourself and heaven will help you.
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
By the work one knows the workman.
Better to suffer than to die.
To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!
One returns to the place one came from.
Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
The strongest passion is fear.