"Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear."

"Never promise more than you can perform."

"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force."

"The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty."

"The bare recollection of anger kindles anger."

"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy."

"Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world."

"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."

"Where there is unity there is always victory."

"God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones."

"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing."

"It is not every question that deserves an answer."

"Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back."

"Speech is the mirror of the soul."

"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."

"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity."

"An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason."

"Practice is the best of all instructors."

"Familiarity breeds contempt."

"The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself."

"Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage."

"I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent."

"A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation."

"He who lives in solitude may make his own laws."

"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit."

"Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken."

"They do injury to the good who spares the bad."

"Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly."

"The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them."

"Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings."

"The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise."

"He whom many fear, has himself many to fear."

"We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs."

"Pain forces even the innocent to lie."

"The opportunity is often lost by deliberating."

"Some remedies are worse than the disease."

"A good reputation is more valuable than money."

"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."

"Each day is the scholar of yesterday."

"There are some remedies worse than the disease."

"It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny."

"It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others."

"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them."

"It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay."

"He who has lost honor can lose nothing more."

"We die as often as we lose a friend."

"It is only the ignorant who despise education."

"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."

"The remedy for wrongs is to forget them."

"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness."