Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
Pride will spit in pride's face.
Poor men's reasons are not heard.
Today is yesterday's pupil.
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
The more wit the less courage.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.