“I am myself my own commander.”

No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

It is easier to begin well than to finish well.

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

To snatch the worm from the trap.

No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.

A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.

He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.

It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.

A woman without paint is like food without salt.

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

The gods play games with men as balls.

In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.

In everything the middle road is best.

There is no place in nature for extinction.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.