What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope.
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
Successful guilt is the bane of society
He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.