If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
How great in number are the little minded men.
A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
Laws are subordinate to custom.
Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.