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.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
I bend but I do not break.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made I tried to be an herbalist whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.
Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
From a distance it is something and nearby it is nothing.
Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise."
To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!
One returns to the place one came from.