This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Conquered, we conquer.

No blessing lasts forever.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Your wealth is where your friends are.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

A word to the wise is enough.

You must spend money to make money.

How great in number are the little minded men.

The evil that we know is best.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

Let deeds match words.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Laws are subordinate to custom.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

It is well for one to know more than he says.

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

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

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

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

No man is wise enough by himself.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.