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The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.
Topic: Beginnings
Source: Maxims
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It is the beginning of the end.
[Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]
Topic: Beginnings
Source: Maxims
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The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good
to others.
[Lat., Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent.]
Topic: Circumstance
Source: Maxims
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A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
[Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.]
Topic: Companionship
Source: Maxims
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An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
Topic: Companionship
Source: Maxims
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It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Topic: Companionship
Source: Maxims
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In excessive altercation, truth is lost.
[Lat., Nimium altercando veritas amittitur.]
Topic: Contention
Source: Maxims
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A cock has great influence on this own dunghill.
Topic: Control
Source: Maxims
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The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty.
[Lat., Timidus se vocat cautum, parcum sordidus.]
Topic: Cowards
Source: Maxims
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Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Topic: Disease
Source: Maxims (301)
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No one knows what he can do till he tries.
Topic: Effort
Source: Maxims
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the
fight in the dog.
Topic: Effort
Source: Maxims
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If you can walk, you can run.
Topic: Effort
Source: Maxims
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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing
down, the other is pulling up.
Topic: Effort
Source: Maxims
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To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom.
[Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.]
Topic: Favors
Source: Maxims
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Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
Topic: Flattery
Source: Maxims
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When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
Topic: Flattery
Source: Maxims
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It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.
[Lat., Etiam oblivisci quod scis interdum expedit.]
Topic: Forgetfulness
Source: Maxims
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It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
Topic: Forgetfulness
Source: Maxims
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We may with advantage forget what we know.
Topic: Forgetfulness
Source: Maxims
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An evil gain equals a loss.
[Lat., Lucrum malum aequale dispendio.]
Topic: Gain
Source: Maxims
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A guilty conscience never feels secure.
Topic: Guilt
Source: Maxims
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He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
[Lat., Fatetur facinus is qui judicum fugit.]
Topic: Guilt
Source: Maxims
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Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
Topic: Habit
Source: Maxims
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He gets through too late who goes too fast.
Topic: Haste
Source: Maxims
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To do two things at once is to do neither.
Topic: Haste
Source: Maxims
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Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
Topic: Health
Source: Maxims
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It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
Topic: Hypocrisy
Source: Maxims
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One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are suffering.
[Lat., Ingratus unus miseris omnibus nocet.]
Topic: Ingratitude
Source: Maxims
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If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled.
[Lat., Bis gratum est, quod dato opus est, ultro si offeras.]
Topic: Kindness
Source: Maxims
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It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.
[Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito neges.]
Topic: Kindness
Source: Maxims
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The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
Topic: Loss
Source: Maxims
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Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.
Topic: Loss
Source: Maxims
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A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel.
[Lat., Crudelem medicum intemperans aeger facit.]
Topic: Medicine
Source: Maxims
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Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
Topic: Medicine
Source: Maxims
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The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has
not.
[Lat., Tam deest avaro quod habet, quam quod non habet.]
Topic: Misers
Source: Maxims
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It is better to have a little than nothing.
Topic: Nothingness
Source: Maxims
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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
Topic: Perseverance
Source: Maxims
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The next day is never so good as the day before.
Topic: Procrastination
Source: Maxims
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Topic: Prosperity
Source: Maxims
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It is not every question that deserves an answer.
Topic: Questions
Source: Maxims
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Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
Topic: Questions
Source: Maxims
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To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of
of the heart.
Topic: Questions
Source: Maxims
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There are some remedies worse than the disease.
Topic: Remedies
Source: Maxims
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Repentance follows hasty counsels.
[Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]
Topic: Repentance
Source: Maxims
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Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.
[Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.]
Topic: Repentance
Source: Maxims
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A good reputation is more valuable than money.
Topic: Reputation
Source: Maxims
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Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.
[Lat., Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet.]
Topic: Rumor
Source: Maxims
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He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.
[Lat., Inprobe Neptunum accusat, qui iterum naufragium facit.]
Topic: Shipwreck
Source: Sententiae (l. 264)
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The losing side is full of suspicion.
[Lat., Ad tristem partem strenua est suspicio.]
Topic: Suspicion
Source: Maxims
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