A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Be on guard against men who can strike from a distance.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Clothes may disguise a fool, but his words will give him away.

Even a fool is wise, when it's too late.

How often do we supply our enemies with the means of our own destruction.

I will have nothing to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.

It is easy to propose impossible remedies.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Little friends may prove great friends.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Precautions are useless after the crisis.

The Gods help them that help themselves.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed with the same scales.

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant or an enemy, must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

Wealth unused might as well not exist.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones of public office.