If you want to keep your credit you must use it as little as possible.
If you want to love your household as much as your bread then you will have to knead your wife like dough.
If you want to understand men, study women.
If you would understand men, study women.
If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
In a conclave many go in as a pope but come back out as the cardinal they were when they went in.
In a good family the husband is deaf and the wife blind.
In love and war don't seek counsel.
In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.
In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?
In your own company no one is boss.
In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, grief without tears.
Ingratitude is the mother of every vice.
It is a hard winter when one wolf eats another.
It is a long day, a day without bread.
It is a sorry house in which the cock is silent and the hen crows.
It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
It is always the impossible that happens.
It is at home, not in public, that one washes his dirty linen.
It is easier to abstain than to restrain.
It is easier to climb down than up.
