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'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.

You will stir up the hornets.

If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.

In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble.

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.

Flame is very near to smoke.

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether with his head.

Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.

Nothing is more wretched that the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house.

I suspect that hunger was my mother.

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.