Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.

If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

No favor can win gratitude from a cat.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.