 Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. |
| He who lives in solitude may make his own laws. |
| He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. |
| It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others. |
| Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. |
| An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. |
| We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. |
| Never promise more than you can perform. |
| How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. |
| From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. |
| While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. |
| A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation. |
| It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny. |
| It is only the ignorant who despise education. |
| There are some remedies worse than the disease. |
| The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty. |
| Pain forces even the innocent to lie. |
| He who spares the bad injures the good. |
| The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not. |
| Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. |
