 Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise. |
| A person dishonored is worst than dead. |
| I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea. |
| When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. |
| Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable. Topics: Life |
| It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. |
| Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason. |
| The eyes those silent tongues of love. |
| In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. |
| There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it. |
| To be prepared is half the victory. |
| Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. |
| Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other. |
| There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. |
| There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. |
| The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. |
| Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds. |
| I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences. |
| The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. |
| Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep. |
