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A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

Always bring money along with your complaints.

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

A mouse relies not solely on one hole.

And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o'er.

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended. [Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis, Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]

Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well. [Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]

A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.

A woman without paint is like food without salt.

A word to the wise is sufficient

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

Confidence begets confidence. Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone. Courage in danger is half the battle.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

Courage in danger is half the battle. [Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.

Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.

Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Every one can remember that which has interested himself.

Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris, Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]

Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. Lat.

Feast today makes fast tomorrow

Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.

Fire is next akin to smoke.

Flame is very near to smoke.

Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

Good things soon find a purchaser.

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.

Fortitude is a great help in distress.

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.