What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things – either to lose your loan or lose your friend.
It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.
A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well. [Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]
A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.
We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
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.
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