To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them.

Penitence follows hasty decisions.

It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.

Bitter for a free man is the bondage of debt.

Tension weakens the bow; the want of it, the mind.

By doing nothing men learn to do ill.

The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved.

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

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Poverty is the lack of many things, but avarice is the lack of all things.

An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.

We may with advantage at times forget what we know.

If your parent is just, revere him; if not, bear with him.

He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.

Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.

Necessity gives the law without itself acknowledging one.

Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Confidence is the only bond of friendship.

When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.

When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

Society in shipwreck is a comfort to all.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Even when the wound is healed, the scar remains.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

He dies twice who perishes by his own hand.

Success makes some crimes honorable.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

For him who loves labor, there is always something to do.

Never promise more than you can perform.

Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.

His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune.

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

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Receive an injury rather than do one.

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.

Pardon one offence and you encourage the commission of many.

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

No one should be judge in his own cause.

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.