Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. |
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. |
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. |
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. |
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity |
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. |
Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity |
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. |
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. |
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. |
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well |
Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment |
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess |
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess |
Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man. |