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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. Lat.
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
Where there are friends there is wealth.
Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
Not every age is fit for childish sports.
It well becomes a young man to be modest.
Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
Keep what you have; the known evil is best.
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.
It is well for one to know more than he says.
How great in number are the little minded men
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Always bring money along with your complaints.
How great in number are the little minded men.
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
To love is human, it is also human to forgive.
He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
'He means well' is useless unless he does well.
A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
Man is a wolf to man. [Lat., Homo homini lupus.]
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
That least pleases us which is most urged on us.
You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
A woman without paint is like food without salt.
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.
Food of Acheron. (Grave.) [Lat., Pabulum Acheruntis.]
Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.