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Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.

Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.

Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.

Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back.

Cruelty isn't softened by tears; it feeds on them.

Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.

Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.

Death laughs when old women frolic.

Debt is the slavery of the free.

Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

Discord gives a relish for concord.

Divide the fire, and you will the sooner put it out.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

Each day should be passed as though it were our last.

Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.

Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.

Equanimity is calamity's medicine.

Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur

Even a single hair casts its shadow.

Even one hair has a shadow.

Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.

Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.

Every one excels in something in which another fails.

Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

Excessive severity misses its own aim.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Friendship is stronger than kindred.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Frugality is misery in disguise.

Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.

Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a kiss.

Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.

He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.