Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

We become innocent when we are unfortunate.

By the work one knows the workman.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

The worst time is always the present.

We risk all in being too greedy.

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.

No path of flowers leads to glory.

What God does, He does well.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

I bend, but I do not break.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

In everything one must consider the end.

Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.

It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.

People who make no noise are dangerous.