“Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.”

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

In everything one must consider the end.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

The sign brings customers.

One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.

Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Diversity, that is my motto.

Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.

A bluejay in peacock feathers.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.