Advice
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Association
To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
Confidence
Confidence is the bond of friendship.
Decisions
That should be considered long which can be decided but once.
Eyes
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
Favors
To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
Fraud
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
Gossip
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Hatred
Take care that no one hates you justly.
Ingratitude
One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.
Judgment and Judges
A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
Kindness
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
Medicine
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
Necessity
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
Past
The next day is never so good as the day before.
Power
A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
Prudence
Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.
Silence
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Success
A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.
Vice
Every vice has its excuse ready.
Wrong
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
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