Opportunity has hair in front, behind she is bald; if you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her, but, if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again.
Our fears always outnumber our dangers.
Poverty is death in another form.
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
Practice is the best master.
Rare is agreement between beauty and modesty.
Ready money is ready medicine.
Respect is greater from a distance.
Revenge is a confession of pain.
Sickness shows us what we are.
Speech both conceals and reveals the thoughts of men.
Stupidity is a force unto itself.
Talk of the devil and he'll appear.
The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.
The face is the portrait of the mind; the eyes, its informers.
The future struggles against being mastered.
The happier the time, the more quickly it passes.
The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
The more you give in, the more you have to give in.
The people want to be deceived.
The remedy for injuries is to forget them.
