Skeptics are never deceived |
Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit. |
Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve. |
Tell me who you frequent and I will tell you who you are |
Tell me with whom you go, and I'll tell what you do. |
That day is lost on which one has not laughed |
The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving |
The cart leads the horse; the young instruct the old (on reversed governing). |
The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry |
The end of passion is the beginning of repentance. |
The eye of the master does more than both his hands. |
The first half of life is spent in longing for the second - the second half in regretting the first |
The first step binds one to the second. |
The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work. |
The greatest evidence of demoralization is the respect paid to wealth |